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Presented  by 
Ross  B.   Thompson,   D.   0. 


COLLEGE   OF  OSTEOPATHIC    PHYSICIANS 
AND  SURGEONS  •   LOS  ANGELES,  CALIFORNIA 


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Organ  Diseases  of  Women/ 


Notably  Enlargements  and  Displacements 
OF  THE  Uterus, 


AND  STERILITY, 


CONSIDERED   AS 


CURABLE  BY  MEDICINES, 


,  BY 


,:^  L 

JC  COMPTON  BURNETT,  M.  D, 

X 

AUTHOR  OF    "TCJIOURS   OF    THE   BREAST,"  ETC. 


PHILADELPHIA: 

BOERICKE  &  TAFEL. 

1897. 


Copyrighted,  1897, 
By  Borricke  &  Takei.. 


T.  B.  &  H.  B.  COCHRAX,  PRINThK> 
LANCASTER,  PA. 


PREFACE. 


/. 


For  years  past  I  have  gone  about 
with  the  idea  of  writing  a  httle  treatise 
on  the  amenability  of  the  commoner 
diseases  of  women  to  successful  treat- 
ment by  medicines  administered  in  the 
ordinary  way  by  the  mouth,  and  I  had 
worked  a  little  at  the  task  in  odd  mo- 
ments from  time  to  time,  but  its  com- 
pletion was  put  off  for  various  reasons, 
and  I  had  almost  given  it  up,  when 
one  evening  the  following  circumstance 
fixed  my  attention  on  the  subject,  and 
I  determined  to  carry  out  the  idea  with- 
out any  further  delay. 

It  was    a    Bank   Holiday,  and    I  was 


^7^C3 


iv  Preface. 

sitting  one  evening  at  a  little  side  table 
in  the  large  dining-room  of  a  well- 
known  London  hotel  all  by  myself, 
when  a  foreign  gentleman  came  and  sat 
b}-  me  and  took  his  dinner.  I  noticed 
he  looked  sad,  and  over  the  dessert  he 
took  up  a  French  journal  and  began  to 
read  ;  then  he  threw  it  down  and  sighed 
deeply.  I  made  a  casual  remark  which 
almost  startled  him  ;  a  foreigner  in 
London  is  apt  to  become  even  more 
reserved  than  a  Londoner,  seemingly 
resenting  our  insular  stand-offishness. 
He  did  not  speak  English,  so  we  drifted 
into  conversation,  at  first  in  French  and 
presently  in  German.  "Ah!"  said  he, 
"you  are  a  physician,  are  you;  we  are 
badly  off  in  our  country  for  good  medical 
men,  particularly  for  diseases  of  women. 
I  am  dreadfully  worried  about  m}^  poor 
wife  ;  I  cannot  sleep  at  night  thinking 


Preface.  v 

about  it  ;"  and  then  he  launched  out 
into  the  following  narration: — 

' '  Some  time  ago  my  wife's  eyes  became 
weak,  and  I  took  her  to  an  optician  to 
get  her  some  spectacles,  although  she  is 
only  35  years  of  age.  The  optician  said 
we  must  go  to  an  oculist  for  him  to  pre- 
scribe the  kind  of  glasses  necessary  for 
the  case. 

' '  Next  day  I  took  my  wife  to  Profes- 
sor X.,  the  noted  oculist,  and  he  carefully 
examined  my  wife's  eyes,  and  then  in- 
formed me  that  he  could  not  prescribe 
glasses  for  her  without  a  consultation 
with  my  family  doctor,  and  to  this  I  ac- 
ceded. They  met  the  following  Wed- 
nesday at  m}^  house,  and  after  an  hour's 
consultation  they  told  me  that  the  eye 
weakness  was  from  a  weakness  of  the 
womb,  and  that  I  must  take  her  to  a 
specialist  for  diseases  of  women. 


vi  Preface. 
\ 

' '  Thereupon  I  took  her  to  Professor  Y. , 
the  eminent  speciaHst  for  ladies'  diseases, 
and  he  informed  me  that  my  wife  was 
suffering  from  an  enlargement  of  the 
womb,  which  was  also  retroverted,  and 
that  the  only  thing  for  it  was  to  operate 
upon  her  and  take  the  entire  womb 
away.  This  was  a  great  shock  to  us,  and 
we  could  not  make  up  our  minds  to  such 
a  dreadful  thing.  We  determined  then 
to  go  to  Berlin  and  consult  Professor  J., 
who  emphatically  condemned  the  pro- 
posed operation,  and  prescribed  tonics 
and  injections;  but  these  upset  her  so, 
for  she  gets  nerve-attacks  every  time -an 
injection  is  used,  and  so  we  are  in  despair, 
as  our  family  doctor  now  declares  for  the 
operation  as  the  only  hope  of  restoring 
rx^y  wdfe  to  health." 

I  hesitate  no  longer  in  sending  these 
pages   to   the   press   to   try   at    least   to 


Preface.  vii 

show  that  medicines  can  restore  enlarged 
and  dislocated  wombs  to  their  proper  size 
and  position.  It  is  no  use  to  rail  against 
ignorance, — we  must  ourselves  set  to 
work  and  show  the  world  that  there  is  a 
better  way. 

I  maintain,  from  ample  experience, 
that  enlargements  and  dislocations  of  the 
womb  are  for  the  most  part  perfectly 
amenable  to  our  remedies;  and,  more- 
over, the  task  is  not  difficult.  I  have  in- 
cluded the  subject  of  Sterility,  as  enlarge- 
ments and  displacements  are  very  com- 
monly its  cause. 

J.  COMPTON  BURNETT. 


86  WiMPOLE  Street, 
Cavendish  Square,  London,  W., 
Michaelmas,  1896. 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 


INTRODUCTION. 


n^HE  uterus  or  womb  being  a 
living  organ  adapted  for 
special  purposes  lias  peculiarities 
all  its  own.  In  its  early  life — in 
fact  at  any  time  in  its  maiden  state 
— its  main  function  is,  so  to  speak, 
to  keep  out  of  the  way  and  obtrude 
itself  upon  its  owner  as  little  as 
may  be:  it  has  to  bide;  its  day  is 
not  yet.  Hence  the  virgin  womb 
is — at  any  age — if  quite  healthy, 

A 


2      Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

and  a  normally  undisturbed  part 
of  a  normal  person — a  verj-  small 
affair,  and  it  finds  no  great  diffi- 
culty in  keeping  out  of  the  way 
and  out  of  the  reckoning.  In 
shape  and  appearance,  and,  indeed, 
in  size  it  niaj-  fairly  fitl}'  be  com- 
pared to  a  pretty  big  inverted  pear, 
but  not  so  oval:  the  stem  of  the 
pear  corresponding  to  the  neck  of 
the  womb,  and  the  thick  end  to 
the  body  and  fundus.  The  normal 
virgin  womb  balloons  about  within 
the  abdomen  out  of  harm's  way :  it 
is  lisfht  and  hollow,  and  somewhat 
supported  laterall}-,  and  so  long  as 
it  is  in  this  happ}'  state  of  un- 
awakened  life,  and  so  long  as  it  is 
normal  in  its  health,  so  long  is  it 
without  trouble  and  giving  none. 


Orgati  Diseases  of   Women.     3 

With  this  normal  hollow  inverted 
pear-shaped  organ  lightly  balloon- 
ing about  in  its  appointed  place 
I  have  here  nothing  to  do.  It 
is  onl}^  when  the  organ  gets  ill, 
enlarged  or  displaced,  and  thus 
troublous  and  troublesome,  that  it 
becomes  object  of  the  curative  art- 

The  orthodox  and  almost  uni- 
versally believed-in,  and  practised, 
treatment  of  the  enlargements  and 
displacements  of  the  womb  is 
surgical  and  7necha7tical.  Speaking 
roughly  and  broadly,  supports — 
pessaries — are  inserted  and  worn 
to  keep  up  the  organ  because  it  is 
too  heavy  to  remain  up  in  its  place. 
Certain  surgical  operations  are  also 
undertaken  for  its  fixation.  In 
other  words,  it  is  reasoned  thus: 


4     Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

Here  we  have  a  more  or  less 
movable  organ  that  is  too  heavy, 
and  flops  down  on  to  the  floor  of 
the  pelvis,  or  even  prolapses  through 
the  vulva;  it  must  be  put  back 
into  its  place  and  kept  there  by  a 
support  adapted  to  the  case,  and 
then  the  patient  will  be  comfortable 
and  able  to  go  about.  Or,  the 
enlargement  of  the  womb  is  on 
one  side  only,  so  that  the  organ  is 
lopsided  and  falls  over  and  down- 
wards, giving  rise  to  a  more  or  less 
complicated  displacement.  There- 
fore, it  is  reasoned,  the  organ 
must  be  not  only  supported  by 
an  adequate  mechanical  contriv- 
ance, but  it  may  be  needful  to 
perform  certain  operations  for  the 
purpose  of  straightening  and  fixing 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.     5 

the  organ,  and  so  on.  It  is  in  no- 
wise needful  to  prove  that  this  is 
the  commonly  accepted  position  of 
general  medicine  and  surgery  at 
the  present  day,  since  no  one  will 
deny  it.  That  being  so,  is  there 
anything  more  to  be  said  on  the 
subject?  How  is  a  thing  that  is 
too  heavy  and  fallen  down  out  of 
its  right  position,  even  protruding 
from  the  body,  to  be  put  back  and 
kept  in  place  in  any  other  way? 
that  is  surely  common  sense.  To 
this  my  answer  is  as  follows  : — ■ 

Instead  of  regarding  the  heavy, 
enlarged,  and  displaced  organ  as 
unalterably  heavy,  enlarged,  and 
displaced,  can  we  not  so  use  our 
vast  array  of  remedies  to  make  the 
organ  lighter,  to  the  end  that  it  may 


6     Organ  Diseases  of  lVome?i. 

of  itself  return  to  its  proper  place, 
simph'  because  it  has  become  too 
light  to  remain  in  its  abnormally 
low  position?  Sureh^  if  an  organ 
is  out  of  place  because  it  is  too 
big  and  too  heav\',  its  displacement 
must  be  due  to  gravitation,  and  if 
we  here  get  rid  of  its  too  great 
weight,  it  will  gravitate  back  to  its 
right  place,  even  adhesions  becom- 
ing inadequate  to  prevent  its  ascent. 
This  is  my  position  in  the  present 
volume.  It  is  here  ni}^  business  to 
show  that  this  can  be  done,  and  to 
name  some  of  the  remedies  at  our 
disposal  for  effecting  the  same,  so 
that  others  may,  if  the}-  choose,  go 
and  do  likewise.  There  are  plenty 
of  scientific  homoeopathic  and  other 
physicians  in  the  world  who  have 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.     7 

thus  regarded  and  treated  enlarge- 
ments and  displacements  of  the 
womb  any  time  during  the  last 
fifty  years,  hence  I  lay  no  claim 
to  having  made  a  discovery.  Hav- 
ing imbibed  the  idea  of  curing 
enlargments  and  displacements  of 
the  uterus  b}^  medicines  given  in 
the  ordinary  way  by  the  mouth., 
and  having  succeeded  well  in  so 
doing,  I  have  thought  the  matter 
out  for  myself  so  as  to  come  to 
a  clear  position  as  to  what  it  all 
reall}^  means,  and  I  have  systemat- 
ically treated  all  my  uterine  cases 
during  the  past  twenty  j^ears  in 
tlie  manner  here  indicated,  and 
therefore  I  speak  to  facts  within 
my  own  knowledge  and  experience, 
and  claim  a  risfht  to  be  heard. 


PROLAPSE  OF  THE  WOMB. 

"  Homceopathy  is  very  good  for  women  and  children." 

npHE  first  time  I  ever  became 
aware  that  a  lieav}^  forefallen 
womb  could  be  in  the  least  helped 
by  medicines  was  somewhere  about 
the  3'ear  1874,  when  a  kind-hearted 
district  visitor  interested  me  on 
behalf  of  an  elderly  widow,  whose 
life  was  greatly  incommoded  by  her 
prolapsed  uterus.  I  treated  her 
with  little  homoeopathic  doses  of 
HeIo7iias  dioica  for  mau}^  months, 
and  the  outcome  of  this  treatment 
was  such  that  I  became  quite  satis- 
fied that  a  forefallen  or  prolapsed 
womb  could  be   medicinally  influ- 


Organ  Diseases   of  Women.    9 

enced  for  good.  The  dear  old 
lad}^  declared  that  the  womb  was 
very  much  better,  and  that  she  was 
restored  to  a  feeling  of  comfort  in 
the  parts  to  which  she  had  long- 
been  a  stranger.  The  patient  was 
not  suffering  from  any  disease 
properly  so-called,  and  the  uterine 
region  having  been  rendered  com- 
fortable, patient  had  no  further 
complaint  to  make. 

ABOUT  Sepia. 

I  was  not  very  long  after  this 
driving  one  day  into  the  country 
accompanied  by  an  eminent  clergy- 
man, a  grand  old  man,  and  a 
staunch  old  homoeopatii,  whose 
benign  smile  of  pity  for  all  non- 
homoeopaths  very  much  impressed 


lo    Organ  Diseases  of  Women, 


me,  who  spoke  to  me  during  the 
drive  thus:  .  .  .  ''I  took  my 
daughter  Julia  to  Dr.  X.  (an  emi- 
nent gynecologist),  because  she 
complained  of  a  pain  across  her 
back  and  local  catarrh,  and  he 
examined  her  and  told  me  the 
womb  was  enlarged,  and  that  she 
must  wear  a  support." 

"But  surely,  Dr.,  you  do  not 
suggest  that  for  a  3^oung  woman 
like  my  daughter  Julia;  can  you 
not  cure  that  condition  with  medi- 
cines?" 

"  No,  there  is  no  cure  for  it 
except  wearing  a  support." 

"  Well,  Dr.,  I  cannot  consent  to 
such  a  thing,  I  must  find  something 
better  than  that ;  what  do  you  think 
of  homoeopathic  medicines  ?" 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women,   ii 

" Homoeopatliic  medicines!  what 
nonsense." 

"  Poor  man,"  concluded  my 
venerable  friend,  "we  must  pray 
for  the  Lord  to  open  the  eyes  of 
his  understanding  that  he  may  see 
the  truth;  I  gave  Julia  Sepia  for 
some  time,  and  quite  cured  her." 

Here  the  eminent  specialist 
treated  the  very  idea  of  homoeo- 
pathic remedies  having  any  good 
effect  in  such  cases  as  utter  non- 
sense. For  all  that  the  girl's  father 
quite  cured  her  with  globules  of 
Sepia.  And  how  could  the  mighty 
gynecologist  know  the  effects  of 
homoeopathic  medicines  since  he 
had  never  tried  them  ?  The  opin- 
ions of  allopaths   on   the  value  of 


12     Organ  Diseases  of  Womeji. 

homoeopathy  are  nothing  but  spite- 
ful splutter:  vulgar  and  nasty. 

MATER   TRIUMPHANS. 

Stevenson's  song  of  the  mother 
is  one  of  jo}^  at  her  inevitable 
influence,  for     . 

"  From  out  of  the  dainty  the  rude,  the  strong 

from  out  of  the  frail, 
Eternally   through   the   ages   from  the   female 

comes  the  male." 

I  have  long  considered  that  being 
a  mother  is  about  the  biggest  thing 
on  earth,  but  on  this  point  all 
women  do  not  agree;  some  willingly 
face  death  without  daunt  in  order 
to  become  a  mother;  such  a  one 
was  the  following: — 

A    childless    lady,    nine    years 


Organ  Diseases  of  IVomen.   13 

married,  and  who,  though  childless, 
had  yet  had  seven  miscarriages, 
with  all  their  attendant  miseries  ol 
floodings,  grief,  and  disappoint- 
ment, placed  herself  frankly  under 
my  care  on  January  26,  1880,  for 
the  purpose  of  putting  a  stop  to 
these  habitual  mishaps,  and  in  the 
hope  of  having  living  children. 
The  late  Dr.  Smith  was  of  opinion 
that  one-half  of  this  lady's  womb 
was  ossified :  the  curious  thing  was 
that  patient  regularly  aborted  at 
5^  months,  and  the  placenta  was 
always  adherent.  Period  normal; 
some  neuralgia  of  right  ovary. 
The  uterus  itself  was  thick  and 
heavy,  and  one  side  of  it  much 
more  rigid  than  the  other.  After 
Alnuin.  3'',  and  Kali  chlor.  6,  each 


14  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

for  a  month,  she  fell  pregnant,  and 
with  a  view  of  trying  to  lessen  the 
unilateral  hardening  of  the  womb, 
so  that  it  might  properly  expand  at 
the  right  time,  I  put  patient  on 
an  exclusively  fruit  and  vegetable 
diet;  but  she  appeared  unable  to 
stand  it,  and  so  I  allowed  her  one 
meat  meal  a  day — one  o'clock — 
but  nothing  else  night  and  morning 
save  fruit  and  soft  vegetables  at 
will.  Big  baby  boy  born  Ma}'-  22, 
1881,  and  since  then  she  has  had 
five  others,  all  hale  and  hearty,  so 
she  told  me  the  other  day  (August 
1893).  Of  course,  patient  had  a 
number  of  medicines  to  prevent 
abortion  and  for  her  very  trouble- 
some piles — Ferrum  6,  yEsculus 
12,  Silicea  12,  and  Sulphur   30 — 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  15 

but  the  principal  lesson  teachable 
that  stands  out  is  the  elementary 
fact,  that  the  organ  diseases  of 
women  are  amenable  to  drug  action, 
and  that  diet  can  be  made  to  play  a 
part  in  abortion.  I  kept  this  lady 
on  very  low  diet,  and  on  several 
occasions  with  her  first  three 
children,  when  abortion  or  mis- 
carriage was  very  imminent,  I 
stopped  nearly  all  food  and  all 
drink,  allowing  only  fresh  fruit  for 
days  together,  till  the  hypogastric 
tumult  had  been  starved  out. 
With  her  last  three  children  no 
treatment  and  no  dietetic  pre- 
cautions were  needed  or  taken. 
One  has  not  often  an  opportunity 
of  narrating  such  a  long  history  as 
is  here  possible. 


1 6   Organ  Diseases  oj   IVomen. 


SPERMATOPHOBIA. 

This  is  the  other  side  of  the 
picture  of  the  mater  triumphans. 
The  lad}^  whose  case  I  have  just 
narrated,  and  who  has  the  six 
bonnie  living  children,  is  herself 
still  a  very  good-looking  woman — 
fresh  and  pluiiip,  and  though  poor 
in  this  worlds  goods,  is  yet  proud 
and  joyous,  and  in  her  children 
rich  beyond  compare. 

THE    TRAUMATIC    UTERUS. 

One  meets  with  a  number  of 
youngish  married  ladies  who  are 
constitutionally  sound  and  are  3'-et 
great  suj6ferers.  In  May  1880, 
such  a  one  came  to  seek  my  help : 
she  was  26  years  of  age,  had  been 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.    17 

married  five  years,  was  the  mother 
of  one  child,  which  was  born  at  the 
end  of  the  first  year  of  married  life. 
Applied  Malthusianisni  accounted 
for  the  childlessness  of  the  subse- 
quent four  years.  Patient,  from 
being  of  bonnie  round  figure,  had 
become  bosomless  ;  her  spine  had 
two  aches,  an  up  and  down  rhachi- 
algia  and  a  pain  across  the  back, — 
the  classic  uterine  backache  we  all 
know  of.  The  menses  every  six- 
teen days  ;  the  womb  thick,  sappy, 
and  low-lying ;  leucorrhoeal  ooze 
coming  from  the  os.  Patient  was 
a  mere  wreck  of  her  former  self,  and 
all  for  fear  there  should  be  too 
many  people  born  into  the  world. 
"  No,  I  will  not ;  I  do  not  care  ; 
I'd  rather  die." 


1 8    Organ  Diseases  of  IVomen. 


I  should  have  said  patient 
suffered  much  from  insomnia,  and 
had  frequent  attacks  of  nerve- 
tortures. 

I  regarded  the  state  as  one  mani- 
festly from  a  battered,  misused 
uterus,  and  so  proceeded  therapeu- 
tically with  Hypericum  per/.  3'', 
with  Arnica  2,  and  concluded  with 
Bellis  per.  i.  There  was  much 
improvement  in  the  uterine  sphere, 
and  the  menses  had  become  less 
frequent.  But  the  spinal  irritation 
was  much  to  the  fore  :  Giiaco  3 
"did  me  great  good  ;  it  stopped  all 
the  sickness  and  relieved  the  back 
very  much." 

Then  a  long  railway  journey 
upset  the  spine  a  good  deal,  and 
flooding  set  in ;  Kali  chlor.  6  and 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.    19 

Fer.  phos.  6  stopped  the  bleeding, 
and  Cuprum  acet.  3""  took  the  pain 
away  from  the  side. 

Then  came  Guaco  3  and  BelHs 
p.  I,  each  a  month  by  itself,  with 
much  amelioration. 

There  finally  remained  a  condi- 
tion in  '  which  almost  any  excite- 
ment brought  on  the  poorly  time, 
and  this  was  cured  by  Cedron  3^, 
5  drops  in  water  every  three  hours. 
To  Cedron  I  was  led  because  pa- 
tient complained  very  much  of 
coldness  in  the  abdomen :  "  Oh, 
my  stomach  is  so  cold  " 

Cases  like  this  pass  before  prac- 
tical physicians  pretty  well  every 
day,  and  the  one  I  have  just  cited 
is  a  mere  sample  of  many  like  it. 
There  is  not  any  disease  properly 


20    Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

so-called  to  be  cured,  but  an 
insulted  womb  with  its  attendant 
worries,  and  spinal  hyperaesthesia. 
It  is  not  eas}^  to  get  rid  of  the  neu- 
rasthenia till  the  spine  is  righted, 
and  the  enlarged  womb  has  to  be 
seen  to  before  the  spine  will  mend 
properly,  and  hence  I  start  with 
muscle-and-nerve  anti-traumatics, 
utilizing  any  sound  symptom  for  a 
differential  purpose,  aSjir.^.,  Cedron 
(cold,  etc.).  I  have  somewhere 
read  that  it  is  hard  to  kick  against 
the  pricks,  and  the  wife  who  cheats 
nature  finds  how  true  this  is.  With 
this  question  I  am  here,  however, 
not  concerned, further  than  to  point 
out  that  genesiac  fraud  causes  dis- 
ease and  produces  a  debased  state 
of    the    womb ;     it    becomes    too 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.   21 

fibrous,  hard  ;  loses  its  erectility 
and  contractility,  and  instead  of 
ballooning  about  in  tbe  abdomen 
in  happy  unconsciousness,  it  flops 
down  on  to  the  floor  of  the  pelvis, 
miserable  and  discontent,  and  a 
sorry  burden, — it  has  been  cheated, 
and  it  verily  does  not  bear  it 
uncomplainingly.  This  might  be 
designated  the  Defrauded  Womb. 
It  concerns  us  here  because  it  is 
almost  always  enlarged  and  dis- 
placed, and  hence  I  think  I  may 
profitably  add  the  following  little 
chapter,  as  it  bears  on  the  etiology 
of  many  cases  of  enlarged  uterus. 

THE  NEMESIS  OF  PHYSICAL  WRONG- 
DOING. 

During   the  past   twenty   years 


22     Organ  Diseases  of  IVomen. 

the  number  of  cases  in  which, 
married  women  prevent  conception 
is  steadily  on  the  increase  ;  their 
many  dodges  in  attaining  this 
end  need  not  be  dwelt  upon,  but 
the  almost  uniform  results  are  tjie 
following : — 

1.  The  breasts  shrivel,  and  in 
extreme  cases  almost  disappear: 
the  erstwhile  fine  bust,  the  shapely 
breasts  shrink  into  shocking  ugli- 
ness. 

2.  The  great  female  character- 
istics diminish,  and  the  individual 
is  apt  to  become  hairy  in  the  face 
and  elsewhere,  while  the  rotundity 
of  limb  is  a  thing  of  the  past :  the 
limbs  are  often  scraggy  and  thin, 
or,  if  obese,  flabby  and  old. 

3.  The  nerves  are  greatly  aflect- 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.     23 

ed,  there  is  almost  always  neuras- 
thenia, and  the  once  sweet  woman 
becomes  irritable  and  cross  and 
miserable. 

4.  Spinal  irritation  is  very 
common. 

5.  The  uterus  is  the  greatest 
sufferer  of  all :  it  has  been  cheated, 
and  resents  the  wrong  done  to  it 
with,  terrible  vigour:  it  becomes 
enlarged,  hard  and  gristly^  and  is 
not  infrequently  the  seat  of  tumours 
of  various  kinds.  And  no  woman 
with  such  a  womb  is,  or  can  be, 
other  than  miserable  and  discon- 
tented, and  very  frequently  there 
is  morning  sickness  analogous  to 
that  of  pregnancy,  with  no  end  of 
other  dyspeptic  troubles. 

The  earlier  in  life  the  physical 


24     Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 


wrong  is  committed,  the  more  pro- 
nounced are  the  ill  effects.  I  do 
not  preach  at  these  sufferers,  and 
I  see  very  many  of  them,  but  I 
tell  them  plainly  the  price  that  has 
to  be  paid  for  their  wrong-doing, 
viz.,  mental,  moral,  and  physical 
deterioration  and  degradation. 

Neither  do  I  regard  the  thing 
from  the  standpoint  of  religion, 
though  I  have  somewhere  read, 
''  Be  fruitful,  and  multiply  and  re- 
plenish the  earth."  This  command 
ma}^  possibl}^  be  out-of-date,  but 
this  one  thing  I  do  know  for  very 
sure,  that  old  Mother  Nature  wipes 
us  all  out  without  merc}^  when  we 
disobey  her  laws :  here,  at  any 
rate,  the  fittest  survive. 

If  a    married  woman   wants   to 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women     25 

grow  old,  ugl}^,  and  miserable,  the 
quickest  and  most  certain  wa}^  I 
know  of  is  to  practice  the  preven- 
tion here  referred  to. 

A  subject  to  be  avoided?  I  do 
not  think  so ;  I  have  the  deepest 
sympath}-  for  suffering  woman ; 
my  mother  suffered  for  me,  God 
bless  her  dear  menlor3^  Dixi  et 
aiihnani  meam  salvavi. 

Now,  wh}^  should  we  avoid  this 
subject  of  the  voluntary  limitation 
of  the  family  ?  "There  is  a  time 
for  everything,"  a  very  wise  man 
once  wrote  down  for  our  instruc- 
tion; here,  in  a  medical  work  on 
Organ  Diseases  of  Women,  the  fact 
that  genesiac  fraud  causes  a  debased 
state  of  the  whole  genital  sphere, 
with    enlargements    and    displace- 


26     Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

ments,  its  consideration  is  not  only 
desirable  but  imperative. 

In  my  judgment,  a  young  woman 
who  does  not  wish  to  bear  a  family 
should  not  get  married  at  all.  I 
know  some  goody-goody  couples 
who  are  joined  together,  not  in 
holy  wedlock  at  all,  but  ..."  We 
live,  and  always  have  lived  ever 
since  our  marriage,just  like  brother 
and  sister."  Some  of  them  teach 
in  the  Sunday  School,  and  do  what 
they  are  pleased  to  call  "the  work 
of  the  Lord,"  particularly  when  it 
is  taking  the  chair,  or  otherwise  or 
elsewhere,  but  anyway  always  to 
the  fore.  Child-bearing  and  home 
duties  are  shirked  by  these  un- 
wholesome byproducts  of  civiliza- 
tion.      They    have   their   reward : 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.    27 

Nature  wipes  them  out  herself, 
and  labels  them  for  the  ultimate 
sorting,  "Depart  from  me,  I  know 
ye  not." 


28    Orgati  Diseases  of  Women. 

DISPLACEMENT  OF  WOMB  FROM  AC- 
CIDENT :    THE  ORGAN  TWISTED. 

In  dislocation  of  the  uterus  from 
accident  the  sufferings  are  fre- 
quently very  severe  indeed.  Thus 
a  married  lady  came  under  my 
observation  on  May  9,  describing 
to  me  how  eight  years  before  she 
was  touring  in  Switzerland,  and 
had  a  fall  which  was  followed  by 
much  bearing  down  and  terrible 
pains  across  the  hypogastriura. 
With  this  there  was  much  irritation 
of  the  bladder.  She  suffered  these 
horrors  for  three  years  before  she 
could  summon  up  courage  to  go  to 
a  doctor.  Finally  the  pains  drove 
her  to  an  eminent  London  gyne- 
cologist of  world-wide  reputation. 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.    29 

This  gentleman  failing  to  even 
relieve  her,  she  consulted  a  second 
physician,  and  he  also  failed,  and 
considered  she  would  never  get  well 
owing  to  the  intricate  nature  of  the 
complaint.  The  uterus  and  every- 
thing seemed  as  if  they  were 
being  dragged  out  of  her  body. 
Homoeopathy  she  despised  and 
ridiculed,  and  it  was  only  after 
eight  years  of  suffering  that  she 
overcame  her  prejudice  and  con- 
sulted me.  In  addition,  besides 
the  forenamed  symptoms,  there 
was  a  peculiar  form  of  leucorrhoea 
coming  on  every  four  or  five  days 
"  in  little  torrents  of  thick  yellow 
discharge," 

Secale  cornutum  f"    cured   this 
case  so  rapidly  and  completely  that 


30  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

the  displacement  must  be  regarded 
as  having  been  most  probably  a 
twist  of  the  parts. 

There  was  no  mechanical  inter- 
ference on  my  part  whatever,  and 
the  cure  proved  permanent. 

That  Secale  was  homoeopathic  to 
the  case  no  competent  person  will 
deny,  especially  if  he  has  ever  seen 
the  effects  of  a  full  dose  of  ergot 
on  a  parturient  person,  who  has  a 
strong  back  and  plenty  of  muscle. 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.    31 


ENLARGEMENT  OF  BOTH  OVARIES, 
ENLARGED  UTERUS,  APHONIA, 
RETENTION  OF  URINE,  ETC. 

There  are  two  or  three  points 
in  some  cases  of  women's  diseases 
that  require  to  be  thought  out  and 
worked  out  separately,  or  the  suf- 
ferers enter  the  category  of  the 
uncured,  and  are  orthodoxly  la- 
belled incurable. 

What  schoolmen  cannot  cure  is 
incurable,  that  must  be  evident; 
what  they  do  not  kuow  is  not 
knowdedge.  A  married  lady, 
26  years  of  age,  mother  of 
three  children,  was  brought  to  me 
from  a  distance  on  May  12,  1893, 
.  .  .  "My  cousin  is  just  a 
wreck." 


32     Orga7i  Diseases  of  Women. 

Patient  was  of  fine  stature— what 
the  French  call  large — of  tender 
fibre,  her  tissues  having  large 
meshes  Such  people  look  much 
more  healthy  than  they  really  are, 
and  very  commonly  they  are  the  pro- 
duct of  a  cross  between  a  powerful 
individual  and  a  consumptive  one  ; 
the  dash  of  consumptiveness  is 
shown  in  their  growth-largeness  ; 
the}'  are  large-celled  and  lacking 
in  toughness.  It  was  so  in  this 
case:  her  father  died  at  29,  of 
phthisis;  her  mother  is  well  and 
strong.  Patient  had  had  measles 
twice ;  influenza  twice ;  and  had  been 
three  times  vaccinated;  and  only  last 
year  had  had  scarlatina.  At  her 
first  confinement  she  was  fearfully 
lacerated,  and    was    subsequently 


Organ  Diseases  of  Womeji.    33 

sutured  in  five  places.  The  case 
being  ver}'-  complicated,  let  us  take 
it  in  sections  from  above  down- 
wards : — 

1.  Complete  aphonia  for  some 
weeks,  cannot  produce  any  sound 
beyond  a  very  slight  indistinct 
whisper. 

2.  Left  lobe  of  liver  considerably 
enlarged  and  very  tender. 

3.  Tongue  mapped  and  very 
pippy;  by  mapped  tongue  I  mean 
the  so-called  lingua  geographica. 

4.  Spleen  moderatel}'  swelled. 

5.  Very  constipated,  and  much 
pain  in  back  and  sides. 

6.  Pretty  bad  haemorrhoids. 

7.  The  uterus  is  enlarged. 

8.  The  right  ovarian  region  is 
the  seat  of  a  tumid    mass    rather 


34     Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

bigger  than  my  fist ;  the  left  one 
also,  which  is  very  painful. 

9.  There  is  severe  but  intermit- 
tent leucorrlioea. 

10.  The  period  is  too  frequent 
and  excessive. 

11.  And  the  crowning  misery  of 
this  unfortunate  lady  was  total 
iuabilit}-  to  pass  water  for  the  past 
two  months,  being  obliged  to  use 
the  catheter. 

12.  Many  nerve-symptoms  more 
or  less  distressing;  and  as  these 
seemed  to  be  largel}''  due  to  her 
overcome  two  attacks  of  influenza, 
I  started  my  therapeutic  campaign 
with  Cyp7'ipedin  3'',  6  grains  three 
times  a  day. 

Cypt  ipediuni  pnbescens^  Cypri- 
pidin^    and    Scutellaria    lai.,    and 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  35 

Scutellarin^i  have  long  been  my 
sheet-anchors  in  post -influenzal 
neuroses. 

This  bettered  the  neurotic  part 
of  the  aphonia,  and  also  the  consti- 
pation, and  patient  was  altogether 
brighter  in  her  nerve  life. 

The  spleen  being  swelled,  and 
patient  having  at  times  some  inter- 
mittent febrile  movement,!  followed 
with  Urtica  ureiis  (gtt.  xx.  in  die)^ 
and  the  more  readily  because  of  the 
retention  of  urine.  This  started  a 
critical  curative  diarrhoea,  under 
which  the  spleen  became  normal 
and  the  piles  disappeared,  and  the 
aphonia  lessened  somewhat  further. 
The  retention  of  urine  no  better. 

The  retention  being  due,  at  any 
rate  in  part,  to  a  swelling  of  the 


36  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

circuni-urethral  tissue,  which  I  have 
at  times  reduced  with  the  aid  oiSaw 
palmetto  ^,  I  gave  this  in  5-drop 
doses  four  times  a  day,  but  it  did 
no  particular  good ;  and  hence  I 
studied  the  case  somewhat  further, 
aud  because  patient  woke  up  with 
the  pain  between  3  and  4  A  m.,  the 
tongue  being  mapped  in  the  centre, 
I  gave  Mai.  30  in  infrequent  dose. 
The  mappiness  of  the  tongue  dis- 
appeared under  Mai.  30,  but  the 
pips  stood  out  very  prominently, 
and  she  now  stated  that  she  was 
worse  in  the  evening.  This  was 
June  9,  1893,  ^^d  under  July  3  I 
find  this  note:  .  .  .  "  Has  twice 
lost  her  voice ;  tongue  very  much 
furred  of  a  morning  ;  constipation 
quite  gone;  piles  gone." 


Organ  Diseases  of  IVomen.  37 

5kJ  Arnica  i,  10  drops  in  water 
night  and  morning. 

August  14. — Voice  quite  well 
these  four  weeks;  bowels  normal; 
still  inability  to  pass  water,  though 
the  pain  at  the  time  of  passing  it 
is  much  less,  the  quantity  more 
natural.  Very  severe  leucorrhoea, 
causing  great  inconvenience.  In- 
somnia. 

^  Med.  1000. 

September  1 1 . — Voice  normal ; 
sleeps  better;  the  pain  in  the  side 
still  comes  on  in  the  night;  very 
much  troubled  with  the  whites; 
still  unable  to  pass  water;  left  lobe 
of  liver  tender. 

5^  Chelone  glabra  0. 

October  16. — No  great  change. 

5?  Zincum  acet.  d. 


38     Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

November  24. — Period  scanty; 
anorexia;  breathless;  palpitation  of 
the  heart ;  still  cannot  pass  water 
naturally. 

1^'  Hydrastinin.  mur.  3",  5  drops 
in  water  night  and  morning. 

January  22,  1894. — "I  have  no 
pain  in  my  side  at  all,  ever;  I  pass 
water  quite  freel}^  at  times,  but  not 
alwa3's;  piles  and  constipation  very 
badly." 

R  Sulphur  30  (infrequently). 

March  2. — Piles  and  constipation 
cured  ;  very  bad  whites ;  micturi- 
tion normal. 

R"  A/rd.  1000. 

This  finished  the  cure.  Patient 
remained  well,  and  in  November, 
1894,  had  another  baby,  and  there- 
after no  trouble. 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  39 


ENLARGEMENT    OF    WOMB;    DROPSY 
OF   LOWER   EXTREMITIES. 

Mrs.  X.,  43  years  of  age,  mother 
of  a  family,  came  to  me  on  October 
21, 1 89 1,  complaining  of  having  fre- 
quently aborted, and  of  "weak  heart, 
considerable  swelling  of  lower  ab- 
domen, and  dropsy  of  the  lower 
extremities."  She  wears  a  pessary 
to  keep  up  the  heavy  womb,  as 
otherwise  she  cannot  walk.  Severe 
leucorrhoea.  It  seemed  to  me  that 
the  heart  was  not  at  fault,  but  that 
the  entire  trouble  lay  in  the  en- 
largement of  the  womb.  She  had 
lost  a  favourite  child — her  only  boy 
— and  was  bowed  down  with  grief, 
which  latter  called  certainly  for 
Ignatia.       The    pressure    of    the 


40    Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

huge  uterus,  however,  called  for 
Bellis. 

1^'  Ignatia  am.  i  and  Bellis  per. 
^,  20  drops  of  each  daily  in  alter- 
uation. 

November  4. — Distinct  improve- 
ment in  ever}^  way ;  leucorrhcea 
much  better ;  can  walk  better. 

During  November  and  Decem- 
ber she  had  Hcionias  ^  and  Arnica 
I,  when  she  was  very  much  better, 
and  exclaimed,  "My  swelled  stom- 
ach is  as  flat  as  a  pancake."  Leu- 
corrhcea and  dropsy  gone.  No 
longer  needs  any  pessary. 

Bacillinum  CC.  followed,  and 
under  this  the  left  leg  swelled 
again.  Early  in  1892  she  had  a 
few  weeks  oi  Fraxinus  Ajuericanus 
^,  10  drops  twice  a  day,  and   was 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.    41 

then  ill  capital  health,  and  function- 
ally regular. 

The  B acillinuni  was  given  be- 
cause of  the  pippy  state  of  her 
tongue,  and  did  good  to  her  con- 
stitution, but  did  not  influence  the 
uterus,  which  was  merely  in  part 
subinvoluted  and  in  part  bruised 
from  much  use.  I  should  have 
stated  that  she  had  morning  sick- 
ness off  and  on  so  long  as  the 
uterus  was  so  greatly  enlarged. 

In  merely  organ  diseases  consti- 
tutional treatment  is  not  indicated, 
and  is  therefore  useless ;  but  a 
battered,  bruised  uterus  yields 
quickly  to  anti-traumatics  such  as 
Bellis  perennis  and  Arnica  mon- 
tana.  And  the  organ  remedies 
appropriate  to  the  Vit&rMS— He lonias 

D 


42     Organ  Diseases  of  JVomen. 

dioica  and  Fraxiniis  Ajnericanus — 
quickly  cured  tlie  hypertrophy  of 
the  organ.  And  in  the  case  of 
organ  remedies,  small  material 
doses  act  best, — indeed  brilliantly; 
such  remedies  also  need  to  be 
repeated  at  short  intervals.  On 
the  contrary,  organ  hypertrophies 
from  constitutional  causes  are  not 
curable  by  organ  remedies  at  all 
until  the  constitutional  disease  has 
been  cured  by  infrequently  re- 
peated high  dilutions  of  remedies 
closely  homoeopathic  thereto. 

I  am  often  asked  why  I  dis- 
approve of  the  use  of  pessaries, 
and  my  reply  is  ...  I  do  not  dis- 
approve of  pessaries  if  nothing  else 
can  be  done,  but  a  pessary  is  only 
a  make-shift  of  a  highl}^  objection- 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.    43 

able  nature;  it  is  better  to  enjoy 
locomotion  with  tbe  aid  of  a  pes- 
sary than  to  lie  on  a  coucb  and 
slowly  become  an  unwholesome 
mass  of  tissue.  But  a  pessary  cures 
nothing,  and  not  only  does  it  cure 
nothing,  but  it  tends  to  render 
the  big  heavy  organ  bigger  and 
heavier  still ;  the  real  indication  is 
to  set  about  reducing  the  size  and 
weight  of  the  organ,  until  it  is  light 
enough  to  go  up  to  its  normal  posi- 
tion. And  my  contention  is  that 
this  can  be  done,  and  the  task  is 
not  even  difficult;  but  it  cannot  be 
done  without  organ  remedies,  and 
also  it  cannot  be  done  without 
constitutional  remedies  when  the 
hypertrophy  is  of  constitutional 
origin. 


44     Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 


Some  of  111}'  critics  have  sug- 
gested that  the  use  of  organ 
remedies  by  me,  learned  largely 
from  Rademacher,  constitutes  a 
falling  awa}'  from  my  faith  in 
homoeopathy,  and  one  writer  speaks 
of  Rademacher  as  "Dr.  Burnett's 
new  love."  As  a  matter  of  fact  my 
acquaintance  with  the  works  of 
Rademacher  and  with  those  of 
Hahnemann  fall  within  a  year  of 
each  other,  and  the  standpoint  of 
each  is  true  at  the  bedside. 
Hahnemann  is  a  hero  to  me,  but 
so  is  Rademacher  ;  is  Rademacher 
small  because  Hahnemann  is 
great  ? 

Now  I  find  myself  often  unable 
to  cure  simple  organ  diseases  with 
dilutions  ;  but  I  also    find  myself 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  45 

unable  to  cure  tHe  great  constitu- 
tional diseases  with  organ  remedies, 
and  from  very  close  observation, 
and  not  a  little  experience,  I  main- 
tain that  the  organopathy  of 
Rademacher  (/.^.,  of  Paracelsus)  is 
just  elementary  homoeopathy,  the 
degree  of  similitude  being  very 
small,  wherefore  small  material 
doses  are  needed  in  fairly  frequent 
repetition.  As  the  degree  of 
similitude  increases  so  must  the 
dose  of  the  remedy  be  lessened. 

Let  me  now  take  a  case  of 
enlargement  of  the  womb  from 
constitutional  cause  to  illustrate 
my  meaning.  A  complicated  case 
like  the  last  but  one  cannot  be 
cured  by  any  one  remedy,  and  it  is 
absolutely    impossible    to    get    a 


46    Organ  Diseases  of  IVomen. 

simile  of  the  whole  case  under 
one  remedy,  since  the  symptoms 
are  from  different  origins,  and 
of  diverse  pathological  qualities. 
Hahnemann  saw  this  clearly 
enough,  and  hence  the  Coethen 
phase  of  homoeopathy. 

But  to  my  constitutional  case. 

SUBINVOLUTED  UTERUS  FROM  CON- 
STITUTIONAL CAUSE. 

A  married  lady,  29  years  of 
age,  mother  of  one  child  two 
years  and  nine  months  old,  was 
brought  to  me  by  a  lady  friend 
of  hers,  an  old  patient  of  mine,  for 
a  sad  state  of  womb  disease  that 
had  baffled  all  attempts  at  cure. 
The  uterus  was  very  much  enlarged 
from  subinvolution  dating  from  her 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.    47 

only  pregnancy,  and  in  whicli  the 
placenta  had  been  adherent;  tlie 
rectnm  was  packed  full  of  piles 
that  bled  often  very  severely,  and, 
besides  this  all,  patient  often  had 
leucorrhoea  and  profuse  monthly 
periods;  vulvar  and  rectal  regions 
deeply  pigmented;  inguinal  and  cer- 
vical glands  like  so  many  marbles. 
Her  general  condition  one  of  great 
debility,  and,  moreover,  she  was 
very  thin;  her  friends  had  given 
her  up  as  a  hopeless  case.  "  No 
hope,  I  suppose,"  said  her  friend  to 
me  privately. 

It  was  quite  evident  that  though 
the  case  was  one  of  womb  enlarge- 
ment, this  enlargement  was  only  a 
part,  and  only  an  insignificant  part, 
of  the  case. 


48  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

The  prime  element  in  this  case 
was  that  constitutional  state  which 
lay  behind  the  placenta  praevia; 
this  became  more  manifest  after 
Bellis  perennis  ^  and  Sepia  5  had 
failed  to  do  any  great  good  (during 
the  month  of  July  1892). 

At  the  beginning  of  August 
things  were  very  bad,  and  patient 
had  again  lost  flesh.  The  duski- 
ness of  the  body,  the  evening 
febrile  movement,  the  emaciation, 
led  me  to  give  Bacillin.  (CC), 
under  which  remedy  patient  lost 
her  fever  and  put  on  flesh.  Then 
under  TImja  30  she  lost  ground, 
and  I  went  back  to  Bacill.  (C), 
and  kept  her  under  its  influ- 
ence for  a  number  of  months — 
when,  thereafter,  Fraxmus  Ameri- 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.    49 

canus  in  small  material  doses 
brought  the  womb  back  to  its 
right  size,  and  to-day  patient  is 
plump  and  well,  and  has  again 
resumed  her  wifely  position,  for 
which  she  had  been  so  long  unfit. 
The  phthisic  element  in  this  case 
could  only  be  met  dynamically  by 
a  remedy  of  high  similitude,  and 
although  the  constitutional  element 
in  the  case  had  been  really  and 
radically  cured  by  the  high  potency 
of  the  pathological  simillimum, 
still  the  womb  remained  enlars^ed. 
The  organ  was  then  met  with 
an  organ  {i.  e.^  womb)  remedy — 
Fraxiniis  Americanus  in  small 
material  doses — and  the  cure  was 
complete,  the  organ  returned  to 
its    normal    size.       August    1896, 


50    Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

patient  continues   well  and   is  en- 
ceinte. 

Contrariwise  I  will  now  adduce 
a  very  simple  case  of  a  hugely 
enlarged  uterus,  so  bad  that  patient 
was  sent  home  to  England  for  the 
express  purpose  of  having  h3^ster- 
ectomy  performed  upon  her,  and 
for  all  that  there  was  no  constitu- 
tional disease,  and  a  simple  organ 
remedy  amply  sufficed  to  secure 
complete  restoration  to  health. 

excessive  enlargement  of  the 
womb:  the  organ  to  be  re- 
moved BY  operation. 

Two  or  three  years  ago — rather 
more  perhaps — a  lady  resident  in 
London  was  in  the  habit  of  con- 
sulting   me    about   her   skin    and 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  51 

about  her  children's  ailings.  We 
had  many  friendly  chats,  and 
latterly  she  was  often  tearful  and 
seemingly  in  much  distress.  What 
is  the  matter?  said  I. 

Oh !  my  favourite  sister  is  so 
very  very  ill,  the  doctors  have  but 
very  little  hope  of  her. 

This  kind  of  thing  recurred 
repeatedly,  and  finally  she  told  me 
that  all  the  doctors  had  decided 
that  nothing  but  a  very  severe  op- 
eration would  now  avail  anything, 
and  arrangements  had  been  made 
to  have  it  carried  out  forthwith, 
and  rooms  had  been  engaged  off 
Cavendish  Square  for  the  purpose. 

Great  operations  on  women  are 
common  enough,  and  I  did  not 
heed  the  lady's  laments  very  much, 


52    Organ  Diseases  of  IVoynen. 

and  I  should  not  have  done  so  had 
she  not  broken  down  with  grief, 
and  begged  me  to  see  whether 
the  terrible  operation  could  not 
be  averted.  ''  The}-  are  going  to 
take  the  whole  womb  right  away, 
it  is  so  big  that  the  body  cannot 
contain  it,  and  all  the  five  doctors 
declare  that  that  is  the  only  thing 
that  can  be  done." 

It  was  arranged  that  the  patient 
should  be  brought  to  me  on  the 
following  Monday,  the  operation 
being  fixed  for  the  Tuesday. 

Mrs.  John  X.,  mother  of  six 
children,  aet.  38,  was  brought  to 
me  in  July  1892.  She  came — was 
brought,  that  is— merely  to  please 
her    heart-broken    sister,    and   to 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  53 

prove  to  her  that  nothing  could 
possibly  be  of  any  service  save  the 
formidable  operation  to  be  per- 
formed next  day. 

Briefly,  it  was  a  case  of  a  hugely 
hypertrophied  uterus,  that  was  so 
much  in  excess  of  the  space  Nature 
had  for  its  storage,  that  the  unfor- 
tunate lady  could  do  nothing  what- 
ever, and  it  was  barely  possible  to 
even  keep  the  immense  mass  some- 
what propped  up  with  the  aid  of 
a  very  large  pessary.  The  womb 
had  been  scraped  by  one  eminent 
surgeon,  systematically  curetted  by 
another,  and  vigorously  cauterised 
by  a  third,  but  it  seemingly  only 
got  bigger. 

There  had  been  at  one  time  a 
severe  rent  in  the  womb  at   one 


54     Organ  Diseases  of  Wotnen. 

of  her  confinements;  later  on  there 
was  adherent  placenta,  and  there- 
upon followed  divers  floodings,  till, 
when  I  examined  her,  the  uterus 
was  big.  hard,  heavy,  and  thick. 

Patient  was  well  preserved  in 
person,  and  quite  free  from  disease 
in  the  ordinary  sense,  and,  in  fact, 
apart  from  the  huge  uterus,  she 
was  fairly  well  in  herself,  except 
that  she  was  pale  and  anaemic  from 
her  too  frequent  periods. 

I  had  the  very  greatest  difficulty 
to  persuade  the  lady  that  I  thought 
medicines  would  quite  cure  her, 
and  that  such  a  terrible  muti- 
lation of  her  person  was  not 
necessary. 

"But  the  operation  is  fixed  for 
to-morrow  morning!" 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  55 

"What  if  it  is?  Have  it  put 
off,  at  any  rate." 

"  But  I  have  come  all  across  the 
world  for  the  purpose  of  having 
the  operation  done;  it's  too  late  to 
alter  now.'' 

The  lady  could  not  be  persuaded 
to  have  the  operation  postponed, 
inasmuch  as  she  had  come  over 
on  purpose,  and  she  had  been 
terribly  tortured  with  her  poor 
womb,  and  she  had  borne  the  long 
voyage  bravely,  in  the  joyful  anti- 
cipation of  being  finally  rid  of  the 
unbearable  burden  for  good  and 
all. 

"  How  old  are  you?"  said  I. 

"Thirty-eight." 

"  And  your  husband,  is  he  a 
worn-out  old  man  ?" 


56    Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

"  Oh  dear,  no,  not  at  all ;  he  is 
really  a  3'oung  man  still,  and  very 
strong." 

"  And  you  are  going  to  have 
yourself  thus  mutilated, — you  with 
a  strong   j^oung  husband  ?" 

The  contemplated  operation  was 
abondoned  for  a  tiyne,  to  see 
whether  our  medicines  would  do 
any  good. 

I  removed  the  pessary,  and 
ordered  the  lady  5  drops  of  the 
strong  \\\\(iX.wx^o{ Fraximis  Ameri- 
canus  three  times  a  day  in  water. 

In  a  week  already  the  operation 
was  given  up  provisionally ;  in 
three  weeks  all  idea  of  an  operation 
was  given  up  as  certainly  needless  ; 
and    in   seven   weeks    the    patient 


Organ  Diseases   of  Women.   57 

could,  and  actually  did,  go  to  Scot- 
land, and  there  took  long  walks  on 
the  moors  without  even  a  backache. 
The  womb  had  simply  diminished 
to  about  its  normal  volume,  and 
gravitated  back  into  its  proper 
place, — and  this  under  the  sole 
influence  of  one  medicine  only — 
viz.,  the  Fraxinus  Aniencajms^  at 
first  in  5,  then  in  6,  and  latterly 
in  lodrop  doses. 

Patient  had  formerly  had  a  good 
deal  of  Quinine^  and  was  very  cold 
and  chilly;  this  was  cured  by  Nat. 
mur..  6  trit.  She  had  been  three 
times  vaccinated,  and  was  sycotic. 
Thuja  occid.  30  and  ^(2/.  (C.)  cured 
this  state,  and  on  one  occasion  I 
gave  her  Ig7iatia  amaj^a  ^,  but  all 
this    was   subsequent  to   the   cure 

E 


58     Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

of  the  womb  by  Fraxi'nus  Am.  I 
dwell  upon  this  to  make  it  quite 
clear  that  the  patient  was  cured 
of  the  uterine  hypertrophy,  and 
was  running  about  on  the  Scottish 
moors,  rejoicing  in  her  new-found 
liberty,  solely  from  the  use  of  little 
material  doses  of  one  organ  remedy 
— Fraxiniis  Americanus. 

More  than  three  years  later — 
December  1895 — an  aunt  of  this 
lady  called  upon  me  on  her  own  ac- 
count, and  on  my  inquiring  after  my 
Fraxiniis  patient,  she  exclaimed, 
"Oh!  she  is  splendid,  and  her 
social  duties  are  very  heav}^,  owing 
to  her  husband's  official  position. 
Nobody  can  understand  it." 

No   physician    can    demand    a 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.   59 

better  clinical  result  than  this,  and 
my  contention  that  organ  remedies 
cure  organ  diseases  stands  again 
confirmed ;  and  I  again  contend 
that  it  lies  within  the  homoeopathic 
sphere  of  influence.  Not  that  I 
claim  to  hold  a  brief  for  homoeo- 
pathy ;  for  if  homoeopathy  be  not 
the  very  best  thing  in  drug  thera- 
peutics, then  let  it  be  swept  away  ; 
only  it  seems  to  me  that  organo- 
pathy  and  elementary  homoeopathy 
are  identical,  and  that  the  heather 
for  the  besom  that  shall  sweep 
homoeopathy  away  is  not  yet 
planted.  "  Shall  we  give  up  the 
law  of  homoeopathy  and  revert  to 
chance  again  ?"  So  exclaimed  one 
of  the  reviewers  of  my  "  Diseases 
of  the  Livery     Not    at    all,    dear 


6o  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

friend;  but  also  do  not  let  us  give 
away  so  big  a  bit  of  the  founda- 
tions of  our  homoeopathic  house  as 
is  included  under  the  term  speci- 
ficity of  seat,  or  organopathy. 

Whether  it  lies  within  homoeo- 
path}', as  I  contend,  or  not,  it  is 
true — very  true — at  the  bedside, 
and  that  is  good  enough  for  me. 
It  will  not  cure  constitutional  dis- 
ease at  all  whose  environment  is 
the  macrocosm,  but  it  sets  right 
the  relationship  of  the  organ  to  the 
microcosm,  the  organism. 

ENLARGED  WOMB  DISTURBING  MIC- 
TURITION, WITH  SEVERE  VOMIT- 
ING. 

The  mother  of  six  children,  72 
years  of  age,  sister  of  Sir  William 
X.,  came  under  my  observation  on 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.    6i 


November  i8,  1890,  for  insomnia 
and  vomiting.  The  region  of  the 
pylorus  being  tender  had  led  to  the 
diagnosis  of  cancer  of  the  pylorus, 
which  appeared  fully  supported  by 
the  patient's  semi-cachectic  appear- 
ance. There  was  also  some  dulness 
on  percussion  in  the  pyloric  region, 
and  cruel  attacks  of  dyspepsia  came 
on  in  the  night. 

There  seemed  little  doubt  as  to 
the  diagnosis,  particularly  as  there 
was  at  times  a  very  foul  uterine 
discharge. 

The  womb  was  very  large  and 
anteverted,  pressing  on  the  bladder 
and  causing  much  distress,  as  pa- 
tient was  often  unable  to  pass  water 
except  in  the  erect  position,  the 
body  being  poised  so  as  to  take  the 


62    Organ  Diseases  of  Women, 

pressure  off  the  bladder.  From  my 
knowledge  of  the  family  consti- 
tution I  was  disposed  to  attribute 
most  of  the  lady's  symptoms  to  the 
bladder  and  uterus,  which  certainly 
were  very  distressingly  to  the  fore : 
it  seemed  to  me  probable  that  the 
flatulence,  fermentation,  vomiting, 
and  nocturnal  attacks  of  vomiting 
might  ver}^  well  have  their  origin 
in  the  hypogastrium.  This  view  of 
the  sequence  of  the  symptoms  in 
the  case  was  supported  by  patient's 
narration  that  she  had  formerly 
suffered  much  from  leucorrhoea, 
and  that  a  number  of  years  after 
her  change  of  life  she  had  a  bad 
discharge  from  the  womb,  and 
which  was  got  rid  of  with  the  aid 
of  vaginal  injections. 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.    63 

I  ordered  Bursa  past  or  is  ^,  5 
drops  in  water  every  four  hours, 
and  later  on  6  drops  night  and 
morning  only.  Patient  was  com- 
pletely restored  to  health  thereby, 
and  no  other  remedy  was  needed  or 
given.  At  first  sight  such  a  thing 
seems  next-door  to  impossible,  but 
when  we  note  that  the  Shepherd's 
Purse  is  a  very  splendid  uterine 
remedy,  we  understand  how  it 
would  be  possible,  which  experi- 
ence confirms. 

This  lady  remained  to  my  knowl- 
edge quite  well  for  years, — indeed, 
I  believe  she  is  still  alive.  To  this 
case  I  should  have  liked  to  append 
a  few  remarks  on  the  suppression 
of  whites  by  injections  as  a  cause 
of  disease,  for  this  case  was  clearly 


64     Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

of  such  an  origin,  but  I  must  leave 
that  for  a  little  further  on.  My  choice 
of  Bursa  pasloris  was  because  it  is 
very  apt  to  set  up  uterine  discharge, 
and  as  I  have  before  shown,  it  is 
most  certainly  a  uterine  medicine. 
Moreover,  it  seemed  to  me,  from 
patient's  narration,  that  the  nature 
of  the  case  was  gouty  rather  than 
cancerous,  which  the  sequel  has 
proved :  there  had  been  a  gouty 
catarrh  of  the  endometrium ;  this 
was  refused  outlet  as  leucorrhoea, 
and  so  it  was  reflected  back  on  to 
the  duodenal  region.  A  brother 
of  this  lady,  now  turned  80  3'ears 
of  age,  is  my  patient,  and  he  is 
for  years  snbject  to  urethrorrhoea, 
certainly  of  a  gout}^  nature  and 
autochthonous.     Had   it  not  been 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.    65 

for  this  side-light  on  the  case,  I 
should  most  certainly  have  accepted 
the  more  serious  diagnosis  of  cancer 
of  the  pylorus. 

The  aid  to  a  correct  diagnosis  of 
a  given  case  afforded  by  a  due 
regard  to  the  organ,  b}^  itself  and 
quoad  the  other  organs,  and  to  the 
organism,  is  very  great;  at  times 
a  correct  diagnosis  is,  without  such 
appreciation,  impossible.  Science  is 
constantly  adding  to  our  knowledge 
of  the  hierarchy  of  the  organs  ;  thus 
some  lately  performed  experiments 
by  a  French  observer  show  that  the 
spleen  is  of  all  organs  of  the  body 
the  most  highly  endowed  with 
oxidizing  power,  next  comes  the 
liver,  and  in  third  place    only  the 


66    Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

lungs.  And  with  the  increase  in 
our  knowledge  come  forth  new 
physiological  facts,  showing  that 
each  organ  has  a  function  all  its 
own  for  the  benefit  of  the  organism. 
This  is  well  seen  in  the  case  which 
follows,  and  purely  from  the  clini- 
cal side. 

BAD  LEG  ;  ENLARGED  UTERUS ; 
INTERMITTENT  LEUCORRHCEA  ; 
AGUE  CAKE ;  FRONTAL  HEAD- 
ACHE. 

An  unmarried  lady,  48  years  of 
age,  came  to  me  in  March,  1895, 
for  a  bad  leg.  The  bad  leg  con- 
sisted of  a  flat  7nass  of  quite  small 
varicose  veins  about  the  left  ankle, 
constituting  a  flat  tumor  raised 
about  a  quarter  of  an  inch  above 
the  level  of  the  skin.      Towards 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  67 

evening  this  varicosic  mass  burned 
a  good  deal.  Patient  changed 
fifteen  months  before  her  visit  to 
me,  but  suffered  from  intermittent 
leucorrhoea,  and  when  the  leucor- 
rhoeal  discharge  came  on  the  burn- 
ing in  the  varicosic  lump  was  in- 
tense. The  uterus  was  moder- 
ately enlarged  ;  general  health  ex- 
cellent, barring  the  flushes,  which 
were  trying.  Patient  came  because 
she  was  much  concerned  about  the 
varicosic  mass  on  her  ankle,  which 
would,  she  had  been  informed,  be- 
come a  "  bad  leg."  The  very  mod- 
erate enlargement  of  the  womb  did 
not  sufficiently  account  for  the 
mass  in  question,  and  the  burning 
in  it  seemed  curious,  notably  the 
great  burning  in  it  when  theleucor- 


68     Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

rhoeic  discharge  was  active.  I  have 
elsewhere  maintained  that  leucor- 
rhcea  is  freqnentl}'  connected  with 
the  spleen.  A  distinguished  physi- 
cian has  tried  to  ridicule  this,  but 
I  am  still  of  the  same  opinion,  and 
here  reiterate  the  statement  that 
leucorrhoea  is  frequently  connected 
with  the  spleen,  and  this  case 
strongly  confirms  this  view.  Find- 
ing that  patient's  spleen  was 
swelled,  I  enquired  if  she  had  ever 
had  ague?  "Yes,  in  India,  ten  years 
ago."  The  leucorrhoea  I  regarded 
as  from  this  spleen  enlargement, 
and  I  also  thought  the  varicosic 
tumour  was  likewise  due  to  the 
state  of  the  spleen. 

Pulsatilla   ^   is    a    most    useful 
organ  remedy  for  the  womb  after 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  69 

the  change  of  life,  when  there  is 
no  period  to  be  disturbed  and 
when  the  organ  is  moderately  en- 
larged. During  the  menstrual  life 
it  is  apt  to  be  too  disturbing,  and 
must  then  be  used  in  dilution  if 
homoeopathically  indicated.  Miss 
X.  took  Pulsatilla  ^,  5  drops  in 
water  night  and  morning,  for  a 
month,  and  it  did  good  to  the 
womb,  and  the  whites  and  flushes 
were  a  little  improved;  but  patient 
complained  ver}^  much  of  feeling 
cold,  though  the  weather  was 
warmer  than  it  had  been  (April 
10).  The  spleen  swelling  seemed 
to  me  to  be  the  primary  seat  of 
the  mischief,  and  hence  I  ordered 
Urtica  urens  ^,  5  drops  in  water 
night  and   morning,  and    it  very 


70    Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

soon  became  manifest  that  the 
hypothetical  diagnosis  was  correct, 
for  the  spleen  came  down  in  size, 
the  chills  disappeared,  the  varicosic 
swelling  waned,  and  patient  and 
physician  were  both  delighted. 
Subsequently  when  Urlica  had 
seemingly  exhausted  its  action,  and 
something  appeared  to  bar  the  way 
to  a  complete  cure,  I  made  further 
inquiries,  and  elicited  the  fact  that 
Miss  X.  had  been  four  times  vac- 
cinated, and  that  her  headache  was 
much  worse  in  the  morning.  The 
Pulsatilla  had  much  improved  the 
headache  at  first,  but  it  returned. 
The  Urtica  did  it  no  good,  but 
Thuja  30  in  infrequent  doses  cured 
the  headache  right  off  and  com- 
pletel3\ 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  71 

Then  Ceanothus  Americanus  i 
was  given  for  some  time — several 
months — and  when  I  last  saw 
patient  she  was  practically  well. 
A  very  small  bit  of  the  varicosic 
swelling  alone  remained,  for  which 
I  ordered  some  remedy  which  I 
have  not  noted.  I  often  pass  Miss 
X.  in  the  street,  and  to  judge  by 
her  looks  and  pleasant  greetings  I 
have  no  doubt  she  is  well. 

Before  this  goes  to  press  I  may 
have  an  opportunity  of  asking  her 
whether  anything  still  remains  of 
her  ailings,'^ 

CASE    OF    PLEURODYNIA     OF     LEFT 
SIDE. 
I  desire  here  to  add  a  v/ord  or 
two  more  or  less   apposite  to  the 

*  Not  since  seen. 


72    Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

question  as  to  whether  the  spleen 
stands  in  an}^  relation  to  the 
uterus.  I  maintain  that  it  does 
(see  my  Diseases  of  the  Spleen). 

The  submammary  pain  —  the 
classic  "pain  under  the  left  breast," 
and  its  equally  classic  remedy,  Cim- 
icifuga — indicate  a  certain  relation- 
ship between  the  uterus  and  upper 
part  ofthe  left  side  in  women.  "Pain 
intheside"  is  very  vague,  but  many 
ladies  complain  to  me  of  it.  In  this 
case  the  pain  was  located  under  the 
left  ribs — /.r.,  in  the  spleen  region 
(spleen  enlarged);  the  pain  was 
worse  periodically  (every  third  day) , 
but  never  absent.  Patient  fortnerly 
suffered  from  leucorrhoea.  From 
the  history  ofthe  case  I  was  led  to 
give    Bellis  perenjiis  0.     It  did  a 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  73 

little  good;  but  tlie  pain  returned, 
and  then  disappeared  under  Tub.  t. 
C.  (patient  was  losing  flesh,  had 
hectic  flush  of  cheeks,  worse  in 
.  the  afternoon).  All  periodicity 
left,  and  then  followed  Cimici- 
ftiga  I,  Thuja  30,  Sabiiia  30,  and 
finally.  Tub.  t.  C.  When  the  pain 
had  gone,  the  spleen  was  normal, 
and  Miss  C.  had  gained  many 
pounds  in  weight,  and  since  con- 
tinues well.  Here  the  pain  in 
the  side  came  subsequent  to  the 
disappearance  of  the  leucorrhoea, 
and  from  the  remedies  that  acted 
curatively  I  feel  sure  it  was  a  case 
of  sycosis  (hydrogenoid  constitu- 
tion) and  psora  mixed. 


74     Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

SUBINVOLUTED    UTERUS;     HEMOR- 
RHAGE;   BACKACHE. 

A  gentleman,  resident  in  South 
America,  formerly  a  patient  of  mine, 
sent  his  young  wife  home  to  be  here 
placed  under  my  care  for  serious 
ill-health.  This  was  August  1894. 
Patient  had  borne  a  dead  boy  in  the 
previous  June,  and  had  got  very  low 
from  haemorrhage,  which  had  never 
left  off  since  the  miscarriage. 

The  enlargement  of  the  womb  is 
considerable,  the  backache  very  bad, 
the  haemorrhage  severe,  and  with 
this,  patient  has  lost  a  good  deal  of 
flesh ;  her  skin  (of  covered  parts) 
very  deeply  pigmented;  her  in- 
guinal glands  enlarged. 

The  diagnosis  here  was  perfectly 


Organ  Diseases  of  Womeii.  75 

clear,  viz.,  a  very  much  enlarged 
womb. 

Now,  it  might  be  supposed,  from 
my  many  laudations  of  organ  medi- 
cines, that  I  should  forthwith  give 
this  patient  a  good  organ  remedy, 
such  as  Bursa  pastoris^  Helonias 
dioica^  Fraxmus  Am.^  Aletris  far- 
inosa  ;  but  I  did  not,  and  this  brings 
me  to  a  very  important  part  of  my 
task.  But,  perhaps,  I  had  better 
record  the  case  first,  and  comment 
upon  it  afterwards. 

15?  Tub.  t.  C.  This  was  my  first 
prescription  on  August  31. 

Sept.  17. — The  haemorrhage  has 
ceased  entirely ! 

I^  Fraxinus  Americatius  ^,  6 
drops  in  water  three  times  a  day. 
This  caused  a  considerable  diminu- 


76    Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

tion  in  the  size  of  the  womb,  with 
corresponding  amelioration  in  the 
backache.  Then  the  first  prescrip- 
tion of  the  Tub.  t.  C.  was  repeated, 
and  continued  for  some  time.  In 
the  winter  Saw  pabnetto  ^,  and 
thereafter  Quassia  ^,  when  in  the 
following  June  patient  returned  to 
her  husband  restored  to  compara- 
tive health.''' 

The  cardinal  point  in  this  narra- 
tion lies  in  the  fact  that  I  did  not 
first  give  an  organ  remedy  in  a 
small  material  dose,  and  why? 

Because,  though   there  was   an 

*This  lady's  husband  wrote  to  me  in 
August  1896,  saj'ing  that  my  patient  con- 
tinued well  and  was  expecting  to  be  confined 
very  shortly. 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  77 

organ  disease,  it  was  not  primarily 
a  disease  of  the  organ,  but  one  of 
the  organism,  and  from  the  organ- 
ism, though  located  in  the  organ 
as  well  as  in  the  organism.  Organs 
may  be  affected  in  themselves  and 
of  themselves,  and  their  ill-influence 
goes  thence  into  the  organism,  and 
in  such  a  case  organ  remedies  are 
the  indicated  curative  agents. 

As  the  organ  is  ill  of  the  organism 
and  from  the  organism,  and  consen- 
taneously with  it,  here  the  primary 
ailment  is  organismic,  and  must  be 
treated  with  the  homoeopathic  simil- 
limum,  which  in  this  case  was 
Tuberciilintim  testium^  and,  as  the 
curative  influence  sought  for  was  of 
a  high  degree  of  similitude,  a  high 
potency   was   used,  viz..  Tub.  t.  C. 


78  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

And  the  result  ?  Quick  cessa- 
tion of  the  urgent  symptoms,  viz., 
haemorrhage,  and  this  being  thus 
radicall}'  cured,  general  improve- 
ment at  once  set  in.  At  the  bottom 
of  the  whole  thing  lay  a  tubercular 
state  of  the  endometrium,  mani- 
fested by  the  deeply  pigmented 
state  of  the  anal  and  vulvar  regions, 
and  by  the  feelably  hardened  state 
of  the  inguinal  glands.  Moreover, 
patient's  sister  was  formerly  cured 
b}'-  me  of  phthisis  with  Bacilliniitn., 
and  her  case  is  narrated  in  my 
New  Cure  of  Consumption ;  and, 
by  the  way,  this  lady  has  since  her 
cure  borne  two  more  bonnie  chil- 
dren, and  is  to-day  in  good  health. 

The  pathologic  simillimum  is  the 
furthest  point  3'et  reached  in  drug 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.    79 

therapeutics,  and  embodies  a  very- 
great  and  fertile  idea. 

After  the  organismic  tubercular 
taint  was  cured  by  the  Tub.  test.^ 
there  remained  the  uterine  hyper- 
plasia, and  this  was  then  adequately 
met  by  Fraxinus  Americanus. 

In  fine,  I  would  summarize  the^ 
whole  thing  thus  :  —  Where  the 
organ-ailing  is  primary  to  the 
organ,  use  organ  remedies  in  little 
material  doses  frequently  repeated ; 
where  the  organ-ailing  is  of  a  piece 
pathologically  with  that  of  the 
organism,  use  the  homoeopathic 
simillimum  in  high  potency  in- 
frequently repeated.  That  is  how 
I  work,  with  much  satisfaction  and 
delight,  at  the  curative  results  so 
obtained.  /V 


So    Organ  Diseases  of  Women, 


UTERUS  enlarged;    BACKACHE; 
GREAT     DEPRESSION     OF     SPIRITS. 

A  maiden  lady,  set.  38,  came 
over  from  Ireland  to  be  under  my 
observation.  The  chief  and  most 
troublesome  symptom  was  depres- 
sion of  spirits  of  a  somewhat  severe 
type.  As  this  lady  had  been  four 
times  vaccinated,  and  was  niiich 
upset  by  travellings  I  began  with 
Thuja  occid.  30. 

At  her  next  visit  she  told  me  she 
was  much  less  unhappy,  but  that 
her  backache  was  very  terrible. 
An  examination  showed  the  womb 
to  be  thick  and  heavy,  its  neck 
very  pulpy,  and  the  backache  was 
worse  between  10  to  11  a.m. 

The  depression  of  spirits  and  the 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.   8i 

thickened  state  of  the  womb  both 
seemed  to  call  for  Aurum^  and  this 
I  ordered  thus  :  ^  Aur.  7net.^  3 
trit.,  gr.  vj.,  one  powder  night  and 
morning. 

May  12. — The  neck  of  the  womb 
is  much  less  pulpy  to  the  touch, 
and  patient  is  bright. 

"^Rep. 

June  25. — "  I  am  so  much  better; 
I  can  run  up  and  down  stairs 
without  my  back  aching  as  it  used 
to  do ;"  and  as  to  depression,  "  I 
am  quite  jolly." 

Said  her  brother-in-law  to  me 
sometime  thereafter,  .  .  .  .  "  You 
made  a  fine  cure  of  my  wife's 
sister ;  we  are  all  very  grateful,  for 
we  quite  expected  we  should  have 
to  put  her  into  an  asylum." 


82     Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 


Said  a  colleague  of  mine  the 
other  day  (he  loves  me  not),  "  Oh  ! 
Dr.  Burnett  gives  everybody  Thuja 
for  what  he  calls  vaccinosis,  and  he 
gives  it  in  the  thirtieth  dilution, 
which  science  has  proved  to  contain 
no  medicine  at  all ;  and  as  for  his 
fad  '  vaccinosis,'  it  has  no  place  in 
any  nomenclature  of  diseases." 

To  which  I  reply  ...  If  a 
perfectly  healthy  person,  who  has 
never  been  vaccinated,  is  liable  to 
catch  small-pox  ;  if  we  now  vaccin- 
ate that  perfectly  healthy  person, 
rendering  him  practically  immune 
against  small-pox ;  wherein  does 
the  change  consist  ?  In  something 
that  is  more  than  perfectly  healthy  ? 
That  is  inconceivable.  It  seems  to 
me  that  the  change  wrought  is  a 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.   83 

pathological  one,  and  I  call  it 
vaccinosis. 

Thuja  occidentalis  is  homoeo- 
pathic to  that  morbid  state,  viz., 
to  vaccinosis,  as  has  been  proved 
man}^,  many  times.  The  thirtieth 
dilution  of  our  remedies  is  a  very- 
powerful  therapeutic  weapon,  and 
has  been  a  thousand  times  scienti- 
fically demonstrated,  and  is  scienti- 
fically demonstrable  to  anyone  with 
a  mind. 

But  what  is  the  use  of  troubling 
one's  self  to  reason  with  a  medical 
individual  such  as  my  said  col- 
league, who  stoutly  maintains  that 
eczema  is  a  local  disease  of  the  skin 
which  he  cures  with  an  ointment ! 


84    Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 


CASE  OF  CONSUMPTION  WITH  NIGHT 
SWEATS  FROM  SUPPRESSED  LEU- 
CORRHCEADUE  TOSUBINVOLUTED 
UTERUS. 

I  hold  very  strong  opinions  on 
the  question  of  intro-vaginal  injec- 
tions :  they  are  altogether  damnable 
and  pernicious,  shallow  in  concep- 
tion, wrong  in  theory,  and  harmful 
in  practice. 

A  married  lad}-,  about  30  years 
of  age,  mother  of  one  child,  came 
to  see  me  on  February  5,  1891,  for 
consumption.  The  case  was  quite 
a  clear  one,  offering  no  difficulties 
of  diagnosis :  patient  had  a  bad 
cough,  night  sweats,  bloody  expec- 
toration, a  tender  spot  in  the  right 
lung,  as  nearly  as  may  be  where 


Orga7i  Diseases  of  Women.  85 

the  right  bronclius  begins  to  ramify. 
She  has  an  affectionate,  wealthy 
husband,  who  had  the  most  eminent 
lung  specialists  of  Europe  to  attend 
his  wife;  she  had  wintered  in  the 
South  of  France  and  in  Algeria, 
and  the  thing  had  been  kept  at  bay, 
but  no  cure  had  resulted,  and  the 
wasting  process  went  on. 

]^  Bacilliniim  C. 

March  2. — Was  much  better, 
but  has  a  fresh  cold  and  is  worse 
than  ever. 

gj  Bacill.  30. 

17. — Urine  thick,  sedimentous; 
still  coughs;  nocturnal  perspira- 
tions, no  better,  break  out  at 
3  A.  M. ;  period  normal,  bowels 
normal,  but  she  is  pale  and  cold. 

5?  Urtica  ur.  ^,  which  seemed  to 


86  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

cure  lier;  but  on  May  14,  some 
slight  pulmonar}^  haemorrhage  with 
the  expectoration  alarmed  the 
family,and  I  went  over  the  case  care- 
fully afresh,  and  came  slowl}^  to  the 
conclusion  that  the  pulmonary  affec- 
tion was  from  whites,  suppressed 
wnth  intro-vaginal  injections,  and 
not  primarily  a  pulmonar}^  case  at 
all.  To  find  the  primary  starting- 
point  of  any  ailment  is  of  the  high- 
est importance,  deny  it  w^ho  may. 

Bj  Med.  CC. 

In  a  week  the  lad}^  wrote  telling 
me  that  since  taking  the  powders 
she  had  got  a  good  deal  of  pain  in 
her  back,  lasting  for  an  hour  or  two 
each  da}^,  viz.,  from  12  to  2  p.m., and 
some  coloured  discharge  had  come 
away  like  shreds  of  skin.     "  I  had 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.    87 

less  of  the  pain  to-day,  but  to-night 
at  dressing  time  (7.30)  a  larger 
piece  came  away,  and  I  thought  it 
well  to  send  it  to  you  to  let  you 
see  [it  was  a  piece  of  fluffy, 
shreddy  tissue  covered  with  mucus 
and  blood,  size  of  a  haricot  bean];  I 
had  the  same  sort  of  thing  for  some 
time  when  I  was  recovering  from 
my  confinement,  about  eight  or 
ten  weeks  after  it,  and  was  then 
recommended  to  syringe  with  sul- 
phate of  zinc  and  alum,  which 
soon  cured  (!)  it.  This  time  it 
began  after  the  period  had  been 
over  for  one  day;  my  back  feels 
better  to-day."  The  medicine  to 
be  finished. 

Jime  2. — Still  coughs;  the  expec- 
toration is  yellow,  thick;  the  tongue 


88    Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

white,  and  the  cough  worst  in  the 
early  morning. 

R'  Med.  looo. 

Result,  perfect  cure. 

FIVE   YEARS    LATER. 

Patient  continues  quite  well  of 
her  lungs,  and  is  indeed  in  splendid 
health,  and  has  borne  two  bonnie 
children  since  her  cure. 

UTERUS  RETROVERTED,  GREATLY 

ENLARGED ;  DYSMENORRHCEA  ; 

CHILDLESSNESS. 

Where  childlessness  is  the  mal- 
ady to  be  cured,  the  sterility  being 
due  to  the  womb  being  thick, 
heavy,  and  retroverted,  hyster- 
ectomy at  an}^  rate  is  no  cure. 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women,    89 

Surgeons  are  at  a  good  deal  of 
pains  to  explain  to  the  anxious 
husbands  that  marital  privileges  are 
not  barred   by  total  hysterectomy. 

Wh}^  no,  certainly  ;  of  a  kind, 
but,  .  .  .  fi  donc^  the  mere 
notion  is  revolting. 

The  case  before  me  now  is  that 
of  a  married  lady,  27  years  of  age, 
two  years  married,  and  childless. 
I  found  the  uterus  enlarged  and 
retroverted,  which  amply  accounted 
for  both  dysmenorrhoea  and  steril- 
ity. Patient  had  numerous  little 
lumps  on  her  scalp,  and  a  lipoma 
on  her  left  hip,  size  of  an  oyster ; 
patient  was  also  troubled  with  seat- 
worms, and  was  thin,  had  evening 
flushes,  and  in  addition  to  this  she 

suffered    from    hay    fever.      Very 
G 


90  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

scurfy  scalp.  A  good  deal  of  indi- 
gestion, and  moist  palms.  I  first 
treated  the  lady's  constitution  for  a 
year,  during  which  period  she  had 
BacilL  CC.  (for  three  months) ,  Saw 
palmetto  ^,  and  Mai.  CC,  when 
she  was  much  better  in  a  general 
way,  but  no  sign  of  a  pregnancy. 
Followed  Aur.  met.  3"",  which  did 
the  uterus  much  good ;  and  after 
Thuja  30  and  Saw  palmetto  ^  she 
fell  pregnant,  one  year  and  seven 
months  after  coming  to  me.  A 
fine  boy  arrived  in  due  course  ; 
and  two  years  later  a  friend  of  hers 
exclaimed  to  me  one  day,  "  Oh  ! 
Mrs.  X  has  another  baby." 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.    91 


STERILITY  ;     MISSHAPEN    UTERUS  ; 
PERIOD    IN    ABEYANCE. 

A  married  lady,  28  years  of  age, 
came  to  me  on  February  11,  1891, 
telling  me  that  she  had  been  mar- 
ried five  years,  but  was  childless, 
to  her  great  regret.  Her  uterus 
seemed  to  have  no  cervix  at  all, 
and  although  28  years  of  age  and 
five  years  married,  she  had  had 
only  seventeen  or  eighteen 
monthly  periods  /;/  her  life^  and 
none  at  all  for  the  past  eleven 
months. 

For  ten  years  she  had  had  a  fixed 
pain  in  the  left  side  of  the  abdomen, 
just  under  the  ribs.  The  pain  was 
constant,  and  dated  from  enteritis 
of  ten  years  ago.     Patient  had  suf- 


92    Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

fered  very  mucli  from  hysteria,  and 
is  very  thin,  pale,  washed-out  and 
very  depressed. 

There  being  much  dulness  on 
percussion  in  the  painful  spleen 
region,  I  started  with  Urtica  urens 
^,  lo  drops  in  water  twice  a  day. 

February  19. — After  beginning 
with  the  tincture,  the  side  pain 
became  much  worse  ;  but  in  four 
days  all  pain  and  swelling  had 
gone.  ..."  Something  seems 
to  have  gone  down  in  my  left  side." 

Rep. 

March  10. — The  pain  in  the  left 
side  now  comes  and  goes,  and  is 
relieved  by  fomentation. 

^  Thuja  30. 

April  2 T).,  1891. — More  pain. 

3?  Bursa  pastoris  ^,  7  drops   in 


Orga7i  Diseases  of  lVome7i.    93 

water  night  and  morning.  This 
restored  the  menses,  and  patient 
felt  herself  very  much  stronger. 

May  28. — The  period  continues, 
but  is  very  painful. 

5kJ  Pulsatilla  0,  6  drops  in  water 
at  bedtime. 

yuly  21. — Has  just  returned  from 
the  Continent,  and  during  her 
absence  has  had  two  periods.  Her 
spleen  is  still  very  large ;  she  is 
chilly  ;  her  breasts  are  now  "  much 
more  natural,"  and  the  whole  ab- 
domen also. 

]^  Bellis  pereniiis  ^,  10  drops  in 
water  in  the  morning  on  rising. 

August  26. — No  period. 

The  case  has  no  further  point 
of  interest  be3^ond  the  fact  that  the 
lady    since    then     has    borne    two 


94  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

bonnie  children ;  and  when  her 
sister  came  to  me  on  her  own 
acconnt  not  long  since,  I  sent  a 
reproachfnl  message  complaining 
that  the  children  had  not  been 
shown  to  me,  and  that  I  should 
have  been  glad  to  know  how  the 
uterus  had  behaved ;  but  the  mes- 
sage the  other  daj;-  came  back:  .  .  . 
"Tell  the  doctor  ni}^  children  require 
all  ni}-  time  and  attention  ;  I  have 
no  time  to  spare  to  come  to  him!  " 

CASE  OF  STERILITY  CURED  BY 

Aurum. 

A  married  lady,  28  3'ears  of  age, 
came  under  my  observation  on 
January  19,  1893,  to  be  treated 
for  sterility.  She  bore  a  dead 
child   two   years    ago,    and    there 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.      95 

had  been  no  conception  since. 
Patient's  husband  is  a  much  re- 
spected allopathic  surgeon,  who 
does  "not  believe  in  homoeopathy 
at  all,  you  know;''  but  still,  "must 
confess  that  it  seems  very  good  for 
women  and  children." 

Patient  suffers  very  severely  from 
leucorrhoea,  ever  since  her  thir- 
teenth year.  Her  husband  has 
never  had  syphilis.  The  whole 
uterus  is  swelled,  and  the  entire 
fore-uterine  region  very  tender  to 
the  touch.  Patient  once  lay  on 
her  back  for  three  years  on  ac- 
count of  her  womb, 

5?  Aur.  mur.  3'',  .^iv.,  5  drops 
in  water  night  and  morning. 

March  12. — Enceinte!  and  feels 
very  well   and  full  of  jo}^  for  she 


96     Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

had  already  almost  given  up  the 
hope  of  having  a  family ;  a  good 
deal  of  nausea. 

R'  Thuja  occid.  30. 

April  27. — Doing  well,  but  the 
morning  vomiting  is  very  bad  in- 
deed, almost  an  illness  in  itself. 

Bj  Med.  1000,  which  promptly 
and  completely  cured  the  morning 
sickness. 

Med.  1000  for  this  ailing  is  a 
grand  friend  in  need  and  indeed ; 
many  a  time  ladies  have  written 
for  "  those  powders  that  cure  morn- 
ing sickness,"  and  this  is  the 
remed}'.  The  dose  is  not  to  be 
lightly  repeated  ;  in  this  case  the 
first  dose  aggravated,  the  third  was 
followed  by  a  cure. 


Organ  Diseases   of  Women,  c^j 


TROUBLES  OF  PREGNANCY. 

These  are  very  manifold,  accord- 
ing to  the  constitution  of  the 
expectant  mother,  a7td  according 
to  the  constitution  of  the  father. 
This  latter  may  look  fanciful,  but 
it  is  a  clinically  verifiable  fact. 
Where  there  is  much  inconvenience 
it  is  as  well  to  find  out  by  actual 
palpation  and  percussion  whether 
the  bowels,  kidneys,  liver,  or 
spleen  are  mechanically  or  func- 
tionally at  fault. 

No  case  of  severe  vomiting  of 
pregnancy  should  be  given  up  as 
hopeless  unless  Medorrh.  C.  and 
CC.  in  very  infrequent  dose  has 
been  tried.  In  my  experience  no 
other   07ie   remedy    meets    such  a 


98    Organ  Diseases  of  Wome)t. 

large    percentage    of   these    cases 
ciirativel}'. 

Why  ?  The  history  of  the  affects 
of  the  marital  urethral  lining  will 
not  infrequently  give  the  answer: 
the  urethral  lips  will  be  found  too 
red  and  swollen, and  when  held  apart 
bridles  of  sticky  mucus  testify  to  the 
former  presence  there  of  Neisserian 
cocci.  Of  course,  there  are  many 
other  causes  of  this  pregnancy- 
vomiting  and  retching,  and  then 
other  remedies  will  be  needed. 

Bellis  percnnis  in  the  INCONVENI- 
ENCES OF  PREGNANCY. 

It  happens  to  some  ladies  when 
they  are  enceintes  that  they  find  it 
very  inconvenient  to  get  about, 
walking  being  very  irksome  and 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.    99 

almost  impossible.  In  such  cases 
the  Daisy  soon  sets  matters  right. 
I  mean,  of  course,  when  the 
cause  of  the  trouble  lies  in  the 
mechanicalcircumstances,andthese 
are  of  a  remediable  kind.  One 
severe  case  of  trouble  during 
child-bearing  I  treated  with  many 
remedies,  including  Bellis^  and  was 
greatly  disappointed:  however,  the 
event  showed  the  cause  of  my 
failure,  viz.,  all  the  trouble  arose 
from  the  long  legs  of  the  foetus, 
that  at  birtn  were  very  much  bent, 
and  the  difficulty  at  birth  was  the 
shoulders,  and  that  after  the  head 
was  born. 

I  sent  a  lady  some  Be  His  i, 
because,  being  far  gone  in  the 
family-way,  she  found  locomotion 


loo  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

so  very  tiresome;  a  very  short  walk 
quite  overcame  her.  A  fortnight 
or  so  thereafter  I  received  the  fol- 
lowing report: — "The  Bellis  did 
me  so  much  good;  I  can  walk  quite 
well  now,  and  do  not  get  tired  or 
stiff." 

Here  its  action  was  prompt  and 
satisfactory,  with  no  inconvenient 
side-effect  or  after-effect,  />.,  truly 
specific.  Why  did  I  give  Bel/is  in 
such  a  case  ?  Merely  because  the 
inconvenience  complained  of  was 
due  to  mechanical  pressure :  the 
tissueswerepressed  upon, and  there- 
fore in  a  condition  precisely  like 
that  of  a  bruise — hence  I  gave  my 
old  friend  the  Daisy — bruisewort ; 
z.e.^  it  acts  upon  the  muscular  fibres 
of  the  blood-vessels  and  upon  the 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.   loi 

tissues,  and  thus  clears  the  line  of 
these  mechanical  obstructions. 

Arnica  montana  \^  and  i,  I  have 
often  used  in  like  manner,  and 
with  almost  identical  results. 

ENLARGEMENT  AND  DISPLACEMENT 
OF  THE  UTERUS;  PERI-UTERINE 
HEMATOCELE. 

A  married  lady,  25  years  of  age, 
came  to  me  on  March  4,  1892. 
She  had  been  two  years  married, 
and  was  childless.  She  handed  me 
the  following  note: — 

"  Mine  has  been  considered  a 
case  of  tubular  pregnancy,  but  is 
now  called  an  effusion  of  blood  from 
the  Fallopian  tube,  left  side,  and 
which  the   doctors   have   told    me 


I02  Organ  Diseases  of  JVomen. 

could  not  be  cured  without  an 
operation;  but  hearing  from  Mrs. 
R.  of  your  successful  treatment  of 
her  case,  I  feel  anxious  to  come  to 
you." 

[Mrs.  R.'scase  wasoneof  ovarian 
tumour  of  left  side,  and  is  narrated 
ill  111}'  Curability  of  Tumours  by 
Medicines;  and,  by  the  way,  Mrs.  R. 
has  continued  in  good  health  to  this 
day,  and  quite  free  from  tumour.] 

I  found  a  tumid  massin  theregion 
of  the  left  ovar}^,  size  of  a  man's 
fist;  tlie  uterus  enlarged  and  pulled 
over  to  the  left,  the  cervix  almost 
obliterated,  and  its  posterior  wall 
bulging  backwards  on  the  rectum, 
and  thick  and  hard. 

Patient's  period  was  said  to  be 
normal,  though  there  was  a  browny 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  103 

discliarge  from  the  vagina  between 
whiles. 

There  was  in  this  case  a  very 
obvious  constitutional  background 
to  the  disease-picture  here  pre- 
sented ;  the  state  was  not  merely 
one  of  an  enlarged  womb,  and 
merely  displaced  by  its  weight,  but 
the  hsematocele  had  also  to  be 
reckoned  wnth  in  its  co7istitutional 
causation. 

Now,  patient's  father  died  at  48 
of  fistula,  which  may  fairly  be 
assumed  to  be  of  a  tubercular 
nature ;  a  number  of  her  brothers 
and  sisters  died  in  infancy ;  her 
tongue  was  very  pippy  in  its 
anterior  half. 

Patient  was  put  under  Bacill. 
CC.  for  a  month. 


I04  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

April  I. — The  lump  is  much 
smaller;  she  feels  sick  and  bilious. 
Still  many  pips. 

R  Fragaria  vesca  ^,  5  drops  in 
water  night  and  morning. 

April  I'] . — The  brown  discharge 
has  ceased. 

R'  Sabina  30. 

May  27. — Period  normal;  watery 
whites;  lump  still  there,  though 
smaller. 

^  Arniea  montana  i'',  5  drops  in 
water  night  and  morning. 

June  24. — Less  watery  whites  ; 
many  pips. 

R  Bacill.  CC. 

July  22. — Tumour  gone,  but  the 
womb  is  still  heavy. 

Rf  Fraxinus  Aniericanus  ^. 

August  27. — Discharged  cured. 


Organ  Diseases  of  Womeit.    105 

What  the  after-history  of  this 
lady  is  I  do  not  know,  but  I  have 
just  written  to  Mrs.  R.  to  enquire, 
and  I  will  add  her  reply,  if  I  get  it 
in  time. 

Mrs.  R.  writes  me  to  the  effect 
that  she  has  lost  sight  of  Mrs.  C, 
and  can  therefore  give  me  no 
information.  This  matters  really 
but  little,  as  she  was  quite  cured 
by  our  remedies,  which  is  the  point 
at  issue,  and  there  is  nothing 
more  to  be  said.  Still  it  affords 
me  a  certain  amount  of  satisfaction 
to  be  able  to  vouch  for  the  per- 
manency of  the  cure  of  any  given 
ailment;  more  particularly  is  this 
the  case  with  tumours  cured  by 
medicines,  which  so  many  are  un- 

H 


io6  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

able,  or  refuse  or  profess  to  be 
unable  to  believe  Mrs.  R.  had 
herself  been  condemned  to  be  oper- 
ated upon  by  the  most  eminent 
specialists,  and  her  cure  by  medi- 
cines declared  and  proclaimed  to 
be  impossible.  And  yet  she  was 
so  cured! 

In  cases  of  considerable  extrava- 
sations of  blood,  such  as  this  case 
of  peri-uterine  hsematocele,  the  con- 
dition must  be  first  tackled  from 
the  constitutional  standpoint.  The 
same  reasoning  applies  to  constitu- 
tional haemorrhoids:  it  is  inade- 
quate to  treat  the  varicosis  till  the 
constitutional  taint  has  been  cured. 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.    107 


ENLARGED    UTERUS   OF   CONSTITU- 
TIONAL CAUSE;  SPERMATOPHOBIA. 

On  February  6,  1889,  a  married 
lady,  mother  of  four  children,  came 
under  me  for  pains  in  the  breasts  at 
the  period,  constipation,  enlarge- 
ment of  uterus,  palpitations,  and 
great  weakness ;  her  horror  of  child- 
bearing  could  only  be  described  as 
awful;  an  all-consuming  life-par- 
alysing dread.  She  was  very  thin, 
and  might  be  described  as  having 
absolutely  no  breasts,  owing  to 
practices  arising  out  of  her  pain- 
fully obtrusive  spermatophobia. 

Closely  regarded,  this  mental 
state  was  probably  due  to  actual 
disease,  and  prompted  by  the  in- 
stinct   of   self-preservation.     Two 


io8  Organ  Diseases  of  IVomen. 

brothers  had  died  of  phthisis,  and 
she  herself  had  pneumonia  last 
year.  The  life-long  constipation  was 
practically  a  substantive  disease. 

B^  BaczlL  C. 

March  8. — "I  am  very  much 
better;  I  feel  stronger,  able  to  walk; 
m}^  appetite  is  better;  but  very  little 
pain  in  the  breasts,  and  .  .  .  will 
any  one  be  able  to  believe  it  f ' 

I  confess  I  hardly  like  to  pen  a 
statement  of  facts  that  take  so 
much  believing.  The  life-long  con- 
stipation— for  which  she  had  been 
almost  dosed  to  death  with  aperi- 
ents— was  a  thing  of  the  past,  and 
the  action  of  the  bowels  was  per- 
fectl}'  normal.  She  had  been  three 
times  vaccinated,  ergo.   Thuja  30. 

April  8. — Bowels  quite  regular. 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  109 

''The  first  powders  quite  cured  my 
constipation."  She  is  of  opinion 
that  the  first  powders  were  remark- 
ably good  aperients,  and  says  the 
last  powders  do  not  act  so  well  on 
the  bowels  as  the  first. 

B.^  Bacill.  C. 

May  8. — Bowels  costive  again ; 
breasts  seem  slightly  increased. 

^  Sabina  30. 

June  26. — Bowels  regular.  "  I 
am  so  much  stronger." 

The  constitutional  cause  having 
been  got  rid  of,  Helonin  3"^,  Bel/is 
percnnis  ^,  and  Hydrastis  Cana- 
densis^ followed  as  organ  remedies, 
and  Bacill.  C.  was  once  repeated ; 
and  twenty-six  months  from  the 
beginning  of  the  treatment  patient 
was  well  and  plump,  and  w^as  dis- 


no  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

charged  cured.  A  last  request  from 
her  was  to  be  allowed  to  have  some 
of  the  BacilL  C.  powders  to  keep 
by  her  in  case  of  need ! 

It  is  often  curiously  interesting 
to  notice  how  a  given  patient  will, 
during  a  course  of  treatment,  pick 
out  a  particular  remedy  with 
almost  unfailing  certainty,  and  this 
always  impresses  ni}'  mind  afresh 
and  again,  since  there  is  no  pos- 
sibility of  doubting  the  evidence. 
For  where  is  the  "  personal  mag- 
netism," the  "  personal  equation," 
here  ?  Where  the  faith,  and 
where  "  the  influence  of  mind  on 
matter?" 

This  patient  had  powders  at 
different  times  containing  on  a 
number   of    occasions    very  infre- 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women,   iii 

quent  doses  of  Bacill.  C  (in  fact, 
two  or  three  a  montli),  and  on  other 
occasions  the  medicament  was 
Thuja  30  or  Sabina  30  (also  three 
a  month),  and  yet  she  knew  the 
difference  between  the  powders 
from  their  influence,  while  to  look 
at  they  were  identical. 

A  very  great  many  of  the 
homoeopathic  practitioners  of  the 
world  refuse  the  right  of  citizen- 
ship to  my  dear  Bacill.  They  do 
not  discern  its  virtues.  Not  a  few 
declare  that  the  higher  potencies 
contain  nothing,  and  are  conse- 
quently therapeutically  worthless. 
And  the  smug  smile  of  satisfaction 
on  their  visages  as  they  chuckle  over 
the  iteration  of  this  hoary  old  lie  ! 

Buttonhole  these  wonderful  per- 


112   Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

sons,  fix  your  eye  upon  their  weak, 
sniggering  faces,  and  ask  them  for 
their  proofs  of  their  surprising 
statement  that  high  potencies  are 
therapeuticall}^  nothing,  and  .  .  . 
and  .  .   .    what?     Yes,  it's   a  fact, 

THEY  HAVE  NEVER  TRIED  THEM  ! 

Helonias  in  enlargements  of  the 

UTERUS,  with  urinary  TROUBLE. 

In  all  cases  of  simple  organ  dis- 
eases one  of  our  greatest  difficulties 
is  to  know  which  organ  remedy  is 
really  indicated.  How  is  one  to 
find  out?  From  the  provings,  no 
doubt, but  with  most  of  our  remedies 
the  provings  do  not  tell  us  enough. 
Rademacher,  following  Paracelsus, 
used  to  maintain  that  it  was  im- 
possible to   know   without    organ- 


Oi'gan  Diseases  of  Women.    113 

testing,  partly  because  tlie  spiritus 
epidemicus  morborum  so  often  plays 
a  part  in  diseases.  Many  of  the 
cases  of  urinary  troubles  that  come 
before  us  are  primarily  from  the 
womb  being  enlarged  and  too 
heavy — and  hence  dislocated,  and 
producing  irritation  at  the  neck  of 
the  bladder,  with  frequent  desire 
to  micturate. 

Frequently  in  dysuria  from  an 
inflamed  state  of  the  urethra  I  find 
Triticum  repens'^'  ^,10  drops  in  a 
little  water,  frequently  repeated,  of 
prompt  effect,  often  giving  complete 
relief  in  a  few  hours,  and  if  the 
ailment  is  primary  to  the  urethra 

*  Agrimony  appears  to  act  very  like   Triti- 
cum repens. 


114  Organ  Diseases  of  Women, 

the  relief  is  an  abiding  cure ;  if  from 
a  tugging  of  the  heavy  womb,  the 
ailment  returns  again  and  again,— it 
is  only  relief  and  not  a  cure.  This 
is  true  always  in  the  use  of  organ- 
remedies  for  organ-diseases  :  unless 
the  ailment  is  primary  to  the  organ 
acted  upon  by  the  organ-remedy, 
we  only  attain  transitory  relief. 
This  I  have  often  before  pointed 
out,  and  here  we  need  not  go  any 
wider  afield  into  higher  homoeo- 
pathy. 

Heloni)i  fits  well  cases  of  urinary 
trouble  arising  primarily  from  a  too 
heavy  womb.  Thus  a  maiden  lady 
of  32  years  of  age  came  under  my 
observation  on  August  22,  1892, 
for  frequent  distressing  micturition 
she  had  backache,  the  womb  was 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women,  115 

heavy,  the  urethra  swelled,  and  her 
urine  contained  mucus. 

Helonin  '^  in  6-grain  doses  very 
promptly  cured  all  the  symptoms, 
although  they  had  existed  for  sev- 
eral years. 

NOTE  ON   Triticum  repens. 

This  is  our  common  couch  grass 
that  is  such  a  plague  to  the  farmer, 
and  yet  if  such  a  farmer  has  an 
irritable  bladder  he  will  walk  over 
his  couch  grass,  and  travel  a  dis- 
tance to  see  a  doctor,  often  getting 
no  help,  for  school-learning  too  often 
engenders  contempt  for  the  simple 
weeds  under  our  feet.  My  pro- 
fessor of  pharmacology,  a  very 
learned  man,  never  taught  me 
anything    about    the     virtues    of 


1 1 6    Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

couch  grass.  I  learned  it  in  this 
wise  in  dispensary  practice : — A 
middle-aged  man  came  to  my  dis- 
pensary seeking  relief  from  dys- 
uria  so  severe  that  it  greatl\-  in- 
terfered with  his  occupation.  I 
prescribed  for  him  and  he  ceased 
attending.  Sometime  thereafter 
his  wife  consulted  me  on  her  own 
behalf,  when  I  enquired  after  her 
husband's  dysuria.  "Oh,"  said  she, 
"  he  is  quite  well,  thank  3'ou,  sir." 
I  referred  to  ni}'  notes  of  his  case 
to  see  what  had  wrought  the  cure, 
when  the  good  woman  exclaimed, 
somewhat  testily,  "Oh,  your  little 
pills  did  not  do  him  any  good ; 
Mr.  Fraser  cured  him."  Now,  ]\lr. 
Fraser  was  a  local  herbalist  who 
kept  a  little  shop  in  a  back  street; 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  117 

and,  needless  to  say,  I  had  very- 
great  contempt  for  him  and  his 
wares,  and  I  was  strongly  of 
opinion  that  the  law  ought  to 
prosecute  him  as  a  quack,  as  his 
very  existence  was  a  scandal. 
Well,  thought  I,  I  will  not  be 
beaten  on  my  own  ground  b}'  any 
one,  and  so  I  made  enquiries  of  Mr. 
Fraser  as  to  what  the  medicine 
was  that  had  cured  the  dysuria, 
and  he  informed  me  that  it  was 
a  decoction  of  couch  grass.  And 
since  then  I  have  often  admired 
the  wisdom  of  our  legislators  and 
of  the  public  at  large  who  refuse 
to  interfere  with  such  humble  and 
useful  citizens  as  our  herbalists 
commonly  are.  Dr.  Robert  T. 
Cooper  tells  me  that  an  infusion  of 


ii8   Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

couch  grass  is  highly  esteemed,  and 
much  used  b}-  British  herbalists  as 
a  bladder  medicine.  I  have  used 
it  these  twenty  years,  and  declare 
it  to  be  a  splendid  medicine  in 
dysuria. 

I  will  just  relate  one  case: — A 
lady,  widow  of  a  notable  London 
physician,  suffering  from  complete 
procidentia  uteri  and  very  bad 
haemorrhoidal  bleeding,  wrote  to 
me  one  da}-  from  the  country  to 
sa}^  that  she  was  driven  almost 
mad  with  painful  micturition  ;  the 
burning  and  straining  were  truly 
awful.  Triticiiju  repeiis  ^,  in  lo- 
drop  doses  frequentl}-  repeated, 
brought  a  most  grateful  letter,  with 
the  request  that  she  might  have 
a  suppl}^  to  keep  by  her  in   case 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.   119 

of  need  in  the  future.  She  keeps 
a  bottle  of  the  tincture  now  in  her 
bedroom  in  case  of  need  !  "  Oh  ! 
what  a  marvellous  medicine,"  said 
she  to  me  one  day. 

Many  very  learned  physicians  do 
not  believe  in  medicines.  Just  so  ; 
a  man  may  be  a  splendid  mathema- 
tician without  knowing  anything 
about  Latin  irregular  verbs,  and  a 
physician  ma}^  be  very  learned  and 
yet  know  nothing  of  remedies ; 
whether  such  a  one,  however,  is 
properly  called  a  physician  may  be 
doubted.  All  knowlege  is  good ; 
but  the  knowledge  that  makes  the 
real  physician  is  the  knowlege  of 
how  to  cure. 


I20  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 


THE   HEMORRHOIDAL    UTERUS; 
STERILITY. 

On  October  8,  1889,  a  married 
lady,  28  years  of  age,  consulted  me 
for  what  I  sometimes  think  of  as  a 
haemorrhoidal  uterus, viz:  the  period 
is  disturbed,  and  the  haemorrhoidal 
veins  seem  to  bleed  vicariously  for 
the  endometrium,  the  period  itself 
being  scanty.  This  lad}-  had  only 
one  little  girl  5  3'ears  of  age,  but  she 
was  most  desirous  of  having  more 
family,  and  her  husband  very 
desirous  of  having  an  heir,  he  pos- 
sessing large  estates.  I  began  the 
treatment  with  Niix  30  and  Sul. 
30  night  and  morning  in  alterna- 
tion. Patient  had  been  to  Schwal- 
bach  to  no  purpose. 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.   121 

November  14. — Mucli  better; 
period  scanty. 

IJ?  Be  His  per.  ^,  10  drops  in  a 
tablespoonful  of  water  night  and 
morning. 

January  16,  1890. — Much  better. 
There  being  some  endometric 
catarrh,  and  patient  having  been 
twice  vaccinated,  the  second  time 
nine  years  ago  unsuccessfully,  I 
now  ordered  Thuja  30. 

February    13. — "For    the    first 

time  in    my  life  my  period  came 

on  exactly  the  day  four  weeks,  and 

although  the  piles  are  still  there, 

they  do  not  trouble  me."  As  patient 

had  had   typhoid  at  five  years  of 

age,    I    ordered    Pyrogenium   5,    3 

drops  night  and  morning. 

April  20. — Is  enceinte. 
I 


122   Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

A  baby  girl  came  in  due  course, 
and  all  went  well. 

October  13,  1891. — Patient  did 
not  suckle  ber  little  girl,  and  the 
uterus  is  now  subinvoluted;  the 
piles  are  again  to  the  fore,  and  her 
husband  is  most  anxious  for  a  son 
and  heir.  Niix  30  and  Sul.  30  were 
given,  as  on  the  previous  occasion. 

January  9,  1892- — Is  weak. 

IJ?  Levico  (strong),  10  drops  in 
water  at  bedtime. 

Feb.  II. — Period  four  days  late. 

1^  Thuja  30. 

March  14 — Period  one  day  late. 

May  5. — Bellis  perennis  ^. 

Sept.  26. — Piles  rather  worse. 
Nux  30  and  Stil.  30. 

January  10,  1893. — Patient  is 
depressed,    and    despairs   of    ever 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  123 

having  her  heart's  desire,  particu- 
larly as  the  period  has  become 
very  infrequent.  I  thought  it 
therefore  desirable  to  rouse  the 
parts  to  greater  life,  and  prescribed 
Aurum  muriaticiim  3^^,  5  drops  in 
water  night  and  morning. 

February  4. — Period  much  more 
satisfactory.  She  is  altogether 
better. 

^  Fraxinus  Amerzcanus,  in  the 
mother  tincture,  10  drops  in  .^j. 
water  night  and  morning. 

March  16. — Enceinte. 

A  fine  boy  arrived  in  due  course, 
and  all  went  well. 

July  7,  1896. — "Oh!  he  is  a 
splendid  boy ;  he  is  nearly  three 
years  old,  and  so  well." 


124  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 


ENLARGED  UTERUS  DUE  TO 
ABORTION. 

Lady  X.,  well  past  40  years  of 
age,  and  not  very  long  married, 
aborted  at  the  end  of  1891.  The 
uterus  was  found  very  heavy,  low- 
lying,  and  soft  and  warm  to  the 
touch,  and  bleeding  at  times. 

I  began  with  Bel/is  prennis  ^  , 
10  drops  in  water  three  times  a 
day.  This  was  continued  with 
much  advantage  for  about  three 
weeks,  when  Hclonin  ■^  followed, 
and  then  Am.  man.  '^. 

In  the  fourth  month  of  the  treat- 
ment Thuja  30  was  given  ;  in  the 
fifth  month  Arnica  monta^ia  i^;  and 
during  the  last  month  Fraxinus 
Americanus  ^,  when  Lady  X.  was 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.   125 

discharged  in  splendid  health  and 
entirely  normal  in  the  uterine 
sphere. 

Lady  X.  had  received  injections 
from  her  family  doctor,  and  some 
of  her  trouble  was  due  to  said 
injections. 

Intro-vaginal  injections,  in  my 
judgment,  are  generally  very  harm- 
ful ;  the  vagina  is  the  natural  cloaca 
of  the  female  organism  ;  it  is  self- 
cleansing  fromwithin  out  wards, and 
from  above  downwards,  and  treat- 
ment in  the  contrary  direction  from 
without  is  irrational,  all  the  recom- 
mendations of  nearly  all  the  doctors 
in  the  world  notwithstanding. 


126   Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

NEURALGIA OFTHE bladder;  STER- 
ILITY; WITH  CONSIDERABLE  EN- 
LARGEMENT OF  THE  UTERUS  AND 
OF  THE  SPLEEN. 

Lady  K.  sends  me  Mrs.  Y., 
now  home  from  Africa.  She  is  35 
years  of  age,  has  been  married  for 
eighteen  years,  and  has  had  no 
child  for  fifteen  years,  when  she 
was  confined  of  a  stiU-born  child. 
There  was  last  year  a  bad  mis- 
carriage, and  since  then  she  has 
never  been  well,  though  all  the 
time  under  the  care  of  a  very 
eminent  gynecologist.  This  gentle- 
man's diagnosis  is  neuralgia  of  the 
bladder.  Patient  is  obliored  con- 
stantly  to  pass  water :  the  pains 
are  burning  ;  very,  very  small  pips ; 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.   127 

anaemic  ;  dark  under  eyes  ;  very 
depressed  before  the  period.  The 
breasts  give  a  good  deal  of  trouble, 
being  the  seat  of  prickly  pains. 

Patient  had  had  sunstroke,'^  and. 
was  commonly  worse  in  the  evening. 

]Jj  Bacill.  CC.  This  was  August 
1892. 

September  6. — Pips  less  distinct ; 
the  urinary  trouble  is  much  better ; 
less  backache  ;  not  at  all  depressed 
before  this  period. 

]J   Thuja  30. 

Sept.  23. — Period  so  much  better  ; 
the  left  rib  region  bulges  a  good 
deal  and  is  rather  painful. 

*  Persons  witli  a  consumptive  strain  in 
their  constitutions  are  very  prone  to  sun- 
stroke, typhoid  fever,  and  in  later  life  to 
softening  of  the  brain. 


128  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

]^'  Tc.  Urtica  ur.  0,  j  drops  in 
water  night  and  morning. 

November  i. —  Tc.  Saw  palmetto 
^,  7  drops  in  water  night  and  morn- 
ing. 

Christmas  1892. — Mrs.  Y.  is 
enceinte. 

August  10,  1893. — A  lady  com- 
ing to  me  on  this  date  told  me, 
"  Mrs.  Y.  is  daily  expecting  to  be 
confined''  (in  last  letter). 

This  case  was  one  not  properly 
termed  sterility,  perhaps,  but  at  any 
rate  it  was  one  of  childlessness 
from  constitutional  disease. 

Mrs.  Y.  is  in  an  out-of-the-way 
part  of  Africa,  so  I  have  no  knowl- 
edge of  how  things  went. 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  129 

ENLARGEMENT  AND  DISPLACEMENT 

OF  uterus;  neuralgia  of  five 
years'  standing;  sterility. 

Countess  X.  came  under  my 
observation  on  January  22,  1887, 
for  neuralgia  of  the  forehead  and 
top  of  head  during  the  past  five 
years ;  she  suffered  also  from  severe 
leucorrhoea,  and  for  the  same  period 
of  five  years ;  and  her  married  life 
was  also  of  the  same  duration,  viz., 
five  years.  She  had  never  been 
pregnant  at  all,  visits  to  Schwal- 
bach  notwithstanding.  The  neck 
of  the  uterus  enormously  thickened, 
the  OS  pointing  rectum-wards. 
Period  every  three  weeks,  and  lasts 
a  week,  and  very  painful. 

^  Sabina  30. 


130    Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

Feb.  9. — Period  lasted  a  week, 
but  was  only  painful  for  two  days. 
She  feels  better. 

R  Rep. 

March  23. — Period  very  painful. 
^  Tc.  Flor.  anrant.  a?uar.  ^,  5 
drops  in  water  night  and  morning. 

April  21. — Neuralgia  gone;  the 
menstrual  pain  is  seemingly  in  the 
uterus  itself. 

]Jf  Thuja  30. 

May  3. — Uterus  much  more 
comfortable ;  leucorrhoea  certainly 
better. 

]j^  Helonias  dioica  ^ . 

June  2. — The  neck  of  uterus  is 
very  hard ;  neuralgia  bad  again. 
Patient  wonders  whether  she  will 
ever  have  a  child.  Said  she,  "We 
only  want  one  boy   to  succeed  to 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  131 

the  peerage.  We  don't  want  any- 
more ;  we  are  too  poor  to  keep  any 
more.  No,  we  don't  want  any 
girl;  we  are  too  poor!" 
^  Tc.  Aur.  mtir.  nat.  3^. 
July  26. — No  neuralgia  ;  no  pain 
at  period ;  the  neck  of  the  uterus 
is  shorter  and  softer. 

August  18.  —  Rather  a  sore 
throat ;  menses  two  days  only ;  no 
pain ;  whites  gone ;  the  elongated 
hypertrophied  cervix  is  half  an 
inch  shorter,  and  the  uterus  in  an 
almost  normal  position. 

"^Rep. 

Nov.  I. — No  whites  ;  uterus  still 
heavy  and  hard. 

^  Be  His  perennis  ^,  5  drops  in 
water  night  and  morning. 


132   Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

Feb.  II,  1888.— The  os  points 
right  on  to  the  rectum. 

1^  Trit.  Plat.  ynet.  3,  which  was 
continued  for  some  time,  till  her 
ladyship  had  taken  sixty  6-grain 
powders,  when  she  fell  enceinte., 
and  in  due  course  bore  a  fine  boy, 
who  is  the  heir-presumptive  to  the 
peerage,  and  a  grand  little  man  he 
is,  so  I  am  told. 

ENLARGEMENT  OF  UTERUS;    BAD 
LEUCORRHCEA  ;   STERILITY. 

Lady  X.,  24  years  of  age,  has 
been  married  several  years,  and  is 
childless.  The  gynecologist's  mani- 
pulations and  operations,  together 
with  syringing  and  Schwalbach, 
have  not  mended  matters.  Her  hus- 
band is  next  heir  to  a  peerage,  and 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  133 

*'my  husband  is  getting  very  angry 
with  me  because  we  have  no  heir, 
for  his  uncle  comes  next  after  him, 
and  he  hates  him." 

Patient,  so  good  and  so  willing 
to  do  the  bidding  of  her  lord,  had 
broken  down  in  her  nerve-life,  and 
was  getting  bad  attacks  of  some- 
what grave  hysteria. 

Uterus  enlarged,  anteverted ; 
much  catarrh  of  the  endometrium. 
Bellis  peren7iis  ^,  Ig7iatia  amara  1^, 
Oletim  sticdni  non-rect.y  and  Fraxi- 
nus  Americaniis  ^,  all  followed  on 
lines  already  given,  when  on  Sep- 
tember 8,  1892,  distinct  improve- 
ment was  noted  in  the  uterine 
sphere,  but  her  ladyship  was  getting 
thin,  with  circumscribed  flush  on 
each  cheek  of  an  evening. 


134  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

IJ  Bacill.  CC. 

October  1 8. — Fearfully  swelled 
all  round  the  hypogastric  area, 
and  yawns  most  painfully. 

Ij^  Aur,  mur.  3. 

November  26 — Morning  vomit- 
ing. Period  three  weeks  overdue. 
Viburniun  ^ . 

A  bonnie  boy  was  born  in  due 
course,  and  since  then  two  other 
children  have  followed,  so  I  learned 
when  I  met  her  ladyship  down  by 
Rotten  Row. 

And  now  I  have  no  more  time 
to  spare  at  present,  and  I  thus  have 
the  option  of  sending  this  to  the 
press  just  as  it  is,  or  of  laying  it  on 
one  side  till  I  can  deal  more  largely 
and  more  adequately  with  so  great 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.    135 

a  subject  as  uterine  displacements 
and  enlargements  from  the  physi- 
cian's standpoint.  I  choose  the 
former  course,  and  leave  the  rest 
to  the  future;  after  all,  I  am  not 
quite  sure  my  bantling  would  be 
any  the  better  for  being  bigger. 

ON  THE  IMPOSSIBILITY  OF  CURING 
CONSTITUTIONAL  DISEASE  OF 
WOMB  AND  OVARIES  BY  ANY 
OPERATIONS  WHATSOEVER. 

I  hold  very  strongly  that  it  is 
simply  impossible  to  cure  any  con- 
stitutional disease  whatever  by  any 
operations.  I  have  defended  this 
thesis  in  regard  to  fistula  in  my 
small  work  On  Fistula^  and  all 
my  subsequent  experience  amply 


136  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

confirms  the  views  therein  ex- 
pressed. The  manifold  operations 
on  women  are,  for  the  most  part, 
absolutely  useless,  often  harmful, 
and  not  seldom  fatal.  How  can 
any  one  cure  the  quality  of  a 
person  by  cutting  a  piece  off  her? 
Omne  ignotum  pro  magnifico^  of 
course,  else  hysterectomy  and 
oophorectomy  would  be  called 
mutilating  and  maiming. 

Early  in  this  year,  a  married 
lady,  34  3^ears  of  age,  came  under 
my  obser\-ation  for  fistula  in  ano. 
In  my  opinion,  fistula,  wherever 
situate,  is  almost  always  tubercular 
alone,  or  tubercular  and  something 
else.  It  also  frequentl}^  happens 
that  oophoritis  is  likewise  of  tuber- 
cular  quality,  with  or    without  a 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.  137 

superadded  gleety  quality.  The 
lady  in  question  had  had  ovaritis 
(or,  as  I  prefer,  on  philologic 
grounds,  oophoritis),  which  formed 
purulent  collections  in  the  tissues, 
and  these  pointed  intheanal  region, 
where  they  were  operated  upon. 
It  was  finally  held  that  the  fistular 
issues  at  the  anus  would  not  heal 
because  of  their  connexion  with  the 
left  ovary  certainly,  and  probably 
with  the  right  ovary  also.  So  it 
was  determined  to  perform  ovario- 
tomy on  this  lady,  so  that  she 
might  be  rid  of  the  fans  et  origo 
mall.  This  was  done,  both  ovaries 
being  removed,  and  very  prettily 
and  neatly  it  was  done.  And  the 
result?  The  lady  had  no  further 
menstruation,  became  enormously 
J 


138   Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

obese — almost  formlessly  so  And 
the  fistulae  ?  They  continued  to 
bother  just  the  same  as  before,  for 
the  simple  reason  that  fistulae  com- 
monly are  of  constitutional  nature 
and  origin,  and  the  cutting  out  of 
the  tuberculous  ovaries  did  not  cure 
the  organismic  tuberculosis,  any 
more  than  cutting  off  a  gouty  toe 
will  cure  the  gout. 

A  brother  and  a  sister  of  this 
lady  had  both  died  of  phthisis,  and 
this  lady  had  phthisis  situate  in  her 
ovaries  and  the  anal  region,  in  the 
form  of  ovaritis  and  fistula  respec- 
tively. Gout  in  the  eye  is  as  much 
gout  as  gout  in  the  big  toe,  and 
tuberculosis  in  the  ovaries  is  as 
much  phthisis  as  phthisis  pulmo- 
nalis,  and  requires  the  same  quali- 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.     139 

tadve  treatment  as  set  forth  in  my 
New  Cure  of  Consumption. 

This  treatment  was  adopted  for 
Mrs.  R.  on  March  17,  1896. 

fune  2. — The  3^ -year  old  fistula 
has  healed. 

^  Rep. 

Septe?nberiz^,  1896. — The  fistula 
remains  healed,  and  its  former  canal 
can  be  traced  by  the  colour  of  the 
skin  for  fully  two  inches. 

Few  kinds  or  forms  of  disease 
permit  the  clear  clinical  proof  of 
disease-quality  better  than  tubercu- 
losis, for  unless  the  disease-quality 
be  radically  cured  the  treatment 
goes  on  and  on,  not  infrequently  to 
a  fatal  issue.  Thus,  a  few  months 
ago  a  gentleman  came  to  me  from 


140  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

the  neighbourhood  of  Birmingham. 
He  was  about  28  years  of  age,  and 
was  the  subject  of  tuberculosis, 
manifested  at  the  time  of  his  first 
visit  to  me  as  phthisis  pulmonalis 
located  in  the  upper  third  of  the 
right  lung,  and  as  scrotal  fistula  of 
the  right  side  There  were  frequent 
blood-spitting,  night-sweats,  bad 
cough,  moderate  loss  of  flesh,  dusky 
skin,  and  great  weakness.  The 
progressive  history  of  the  disease 
was  very  instructive,  and  bears  out 
the  views  I  am  at  this  point  trying 
to  lay  before  my  readers.  The 
thing  began  as  tubercular  syno- 
vitis of  the  right  knee  joint  (he 
was  puceau,  and  hence  had  not  had 
gonorrhoea)  ;  and  to  prevent  any 
spread  of  the  disease  to  the  consti- 


Organ  Diseases  of  Wome7i.  141 

tution,  his  right  leg  was  amputated 
just,  above  the  knee.  All  went 
well  and  patient  made  a  good  re- 
covery, and  was  supposed  to  have 
had  the  primary  seat  of  the  disease 
totally  removed  and  his  life  saved. 
After  a  while,  however,  tuberculosis 
broke  out  in  his  left  testicle,  and 
many  consultations  of  eminent 
surgeons  were  held  as  to  what  to  do 
next.  It  was  finally  decided  to  re- 
move the  diseased  testicle  to  save 
the  constitution,  and  he  was  assured 
that  this  time  the  cure  would  be 
radical.  The  left  testicle  was 
accordingly  removed  and  patient 
again  made  a  complete  recovery, 
and  returned  home  and  to  his  busi- 
ness full  of  hope  and  gratitude 
to  his  surgical  benefactors.     After 


142  Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

a  while  tuberculosis  broke  out  in 
the  remaining  testicle ;  the  organ 
swelled,  inflamed  and  broke,  and 
discharged  bacilli-containing  pus. 
Many  more  consultations  took 
place,  and  as  there  was  a  bad  cough, 
physicians  were  called  to  consult 
with  the  surgeons,  and  then  came 
blood-spitting  :  nevertheless  it  was 
decided  to  remove  the  remaining 
testicle.  At  this  stage  patient 
came  under  our  scientific  homoeo- 
pathic treatment.  He  is  getting 
well,  but  the  point  that  here  con- 
cerns me  is  that  surgery  cannot 
cure  constitutional  disease  even 
though  expressed  only  in  a  part. 
This  we  see  every  day  in  regard 
to  strumous  glands  in  the  necks  of 
young   children    which   it    is    the 


Organ  Diseases  of  Women.     143 

fashion  to  cut  out  "  to  save  the 
constitution  and  prevent  ugly- 
scars."  It  does  neither  ;  but,  on  the 
contrary,  tends  to  wreck  the  consti- 
tution, and  the  scars  left  by  opera- 
tions are  worse  than  those  from 
natural  suppuration,  in  so  far  as 
theyshowmore  And  why?  Because 
when  these  strumous  glands  are 
cut  out  there  is  loss  of  gland  and  of 
connective  tissue,  so  that  the  en- 
vironment of  the  gland  sinks  in, 
whereas  when  the  gland  suppurates 
naturally  (under  the  influence  of 
adequate  constitutional  treatment, 
be  it  remembered)  there  is  hyper- 
plasia of  areolar  tissue  to  fill  up  the 
gap,  and  in  the  end  the  scar  is  much 
less  noticeable  than  that  left  by  ex- 
cision. 


144     Organ  Diseases  of  Women. 

This  point  is  very  important 
indeed,  and  I  would  impress  it 
upon  my  readers  as  worthy  of 
serious  consideration,  and  a  glance 
at  a  few  scarry  necks  will  show  the 
correctness  of  my  statement. 


INDEX. 

Abortion,  case  of,  124. 

^sculus,  14. 

Ague-cake,  case  of,  68. 

Aletris  farinosa,  75. 

Allopaths'  opinions  on  homoeopathy  are 

nothing  but  spiteful  splutter,  11. 
Alnuin,  13. 
Aphonia,  31. 
Arnica  montana,  18,  37,  40,  41,  loi,  104, 

124. 
Aurum  met.,  81,  90. 
Aurum  mur.  cures  sterility,  94,  123. 
Aur.  mur.  nat. ,  131,  134. 

Bacillinum,  40,  41,  48,  78,  85,  90,  103, 
[04,  108,  109,  1 10,  III,  127,  134. 

Bellis  perennis,  18,  19,  40,  41,  48,  72,  93, 
99,  100,    109,  121,  122,  124,  131,    133. 

Bellis  perennis  in  the  inconveniences  of 
pregnancy,  98. 

Bladder,  neuralgia  of  the,  124. 


146  Index. 

Bursa    pastoris  a  very    splendid    uterine 
remedy,  43,  44,  75,  92. 

Ceauothus  Americanus,  71. 

Cedron,  19,  20. 

Chelon  glabra,  37. 

Cimicifuga,  72,  73. 

Clergyman's  daughter  Julia,  enlargement 

of  womb  cured  by  Sepia,  9. 
Coethen  phase  of  homoeopathy,  46. 
Consumption,  case  of,   from    suppressed 

leucorrhoea  due  to  subinv^oluted  uterus, 

84. 
Cooper,   Dr.  Robert  T.,  on  couch   grass, 

117. 
Couch  grass,  common,  115,  117. 
Couch  grass  used  by  British  herbalists  as 

a  bladder  medicine,  118. 
Countess  X.,  case  of,  129. 
Cuprum  acet,  19. 
Cypripedin,  34. 
Cypripedium  pubescens,  34. 
Daisy,  valuable  in  pregnancy,  99,  100. 
Dropsy  of  lower  extremities,  39. 


Index.  147 

Dysuria,  treatment  for,  113,  116,  117. 
Family,  voluntary  limitation  of,  25. 
Ferrum,  14. 
Fer.  phos.,  19. 
Fistula  in  ano,  case  of,  136. 
Flor.  aurant.  amar. ,  130. 
Fragaria  vesca,  104. 

Fraser,  Mr.,  herbalist,  cured  dysuria,  116. 
Fraxinus  Americanus,  40,  42,  48,  49,  56, 
57,  58,  75.  79,  104,  123,  124,  133- 

Genesiac  fraud  causes  evil  results,  20. 
Gentleman,  28  years  of  age,  case  of,  140. 
Guaco,  18,  19. 

Hsematocele,  peri-uterine,  loi. 
Haemorrhoids,  constitutional,  106. 
Hahnemann  is  a  hero  to  Dr.  Burnett,  44. 
Helonias  dioica,  8,  40,  41,  75,  130. 
Helonias  in  enlargement  of  the   uterus 

with  urinary  trouble,  112,  114. 
Helonin,  109,  114,  115,  124, 
Hydrastinin.  mur.,  38. 
Hydrastis  Canadensis,  109. 
Hypericum  perf. ,  18. 


148  Index. 

Ignatia  amara,  39,  40,  57,  133. 

Kali  chlor.,  6,  18. 

Lady,  childless,  after  treatment,  had  six 
healthy  children,  14. 
,,  ,,     nine  years  married  but  had 

seven  miscarriages,  case  of, 

1 1. 
,,  ,,     the  late  Dr.  Smith's  opinion 

of,  13. 
,,       foreign,  married,  case  of.  Preface  v. 
,,       maiden,  38  years  of  age,  case  of,  80. 
,,  ,,     32  years  of  age,  case  of,  114. 

,,       married,  about  30  years  of  age,  with 
consumptive  s)'mptoms,  84. 
, ,  , ,     mother  of  four  children ,  case 

of,  107. 
,,  ,,     mother  of  three  children,  26 

5'ears  of  age,  case  of,  31. 
, ,  . ,     25  years  of  age,  case  of,  1 01 . 

,,  ,,26  years  of  age,  case  of,  16. 

,,  ,,27  years  of  age,  case  of,  89. 

,,  ,.28  years  of  age,  case  of,  91. 


Index.  149 

lyady,  married,  28  years  of  age,  treated 

for  sterility,  94. 

,,  ,,         28    years  of    age,    with 

haemorrhoidal        uterus, 

case  of,  120. 

,,  ,,         29  yearsofage.caseof,  46. 

,,  ,,         34  years  of   age,  case  of 

fistula  in  ano,  in,  136. 
, ,     widow  of  notable  Ivondon  physician , 

case  of,  118. 
,,     X.,  married,  40  years   of  age,  case 

of,  124. 
,,       ,,         M         24  years  of   age,  case 

of,  132. 
,,     young  married,  resident  in  South 
America,  case  of,  74. 
Leg,  bad,  case  of,  in  unmarried  lady,  48 

years  of  age,  66. 
Leucorrhoea,   bad,   with   enlargement  of 
uterus  and  sterility,  132. 
,,  frequently   connected   with 

,,  the  spleen,  68. 

,,  intermittent,   case   of,  with 

enlarged  uterus,  67. 


150  Index. 

Leucorrhcea,  suppressed,  causing  con- 
sumption, 84. 

Levico,  122. 

"Liver,"  Dr.  Burnett  on  "Diseases  of 
the,"  59. 

Mai.,  36,  57,  90. 

Malthusianism,  applied,  evil  effects  of,  17, 

Mater  triumphans,  12,  16. 

Med.,  37,  38,  86,  88,  96. 

Medorrh.,  97. 

Nat.  mur. ,  57. 

Nerve  tortures,  18, 

Neuralgia  of  five  years'  standing  with  en- 
largement and  displacement  of  uterus, 
129. 

Neurasthenia,  20,  23. 

Nux,  120,  122. 

Oleum  succini,  133. 

Ovaries,  enlargement  of  both,  31. 

Pessaries,  on  use  of.  3,  42. 

Physical  wrong-doing.  Nemesis  of,  21. 


Index.  151 

Plat,  met.,  132. 
Pleurodynia  of  left  side,  71. 
Pregnancy,  Bellis  pereni^is  in  the  incon- 
veniencies  of,  98. 

,,  troubles  of,  97. 

,,  vomiting  of,  97. 

Pulsatilla,  68,  69,  70,  93. 
Pyrogenium,   121. 

Quassia,  76. 
Quinine,  57. 

Rademacher,    Dr.    Burnett's  opinion   of, 
44. 
,,  organopathy  of,  45. 

R.,  Mrs.,  case  of  ovarian  tumour,  102. 

Sabina,  73,  104,  109,  iii,  129. 
Saw  palmetto,  36,  76,  90,  128. 
Scutellaria  lat.,  34. 
Scutellarin,  35. 
Secale  cornutum,  29,  30. 
Sepia,  9,  II,  48. 

Shepherd's  purse,  a  very  splendid  uterine 
remedy,  63. 


152  Index. 

Silicea,  14. 

Spermatophobia,  16,  107. 
Spleen,  the,  if  related  to  the  uterus,  72. 
Sterility,  case  of,  cured  by  Aurum,  95. 
,,        with  bad   leucorrhoea  and  en- 
largement of  the  uterus,  132. 
,,        with  enlargement  and  displace- 
ment of  the  uterus,  129. 
,,        with  misshapen  uterus,  91. 
, ,        with  neuralgia  of  the  bladder, 
124. 
Stevenson's  song  of  the  mother,  12, 
Sulphur,  14,  38,  120,  122. 

Thuja,  130. 

,,      occid.,  48,  57,  70,  73,  80,  82,  90, 
92,  96,  108,  III,  121,  122,  124, 
127. 
,,      occidentalis  is    homceopathic    to 
vaccinosis,  83. 
Triticum  repens,  113,  115,    118. 
Tuberculinum  testium,  73,  75,  76,  77,  79. 
Tuberculosis  in  gentleman    28  years   of 
age,  139. 


Index.  153 

"Tumours,"  Dr.  Burnett's   "Curability 

of,"  "by  Medicines,"  102. 
Urine,  retention  of,  31. 
Urtica  urens,  35,  69,  70,  85,  92,  128. 
Uterus,  case  of  hugely  enlarged,  50. 
,,       defrauded,   23. 
,,       description  of ,  2.  See  Womb  also. 
,,       enlarged,  31,  67. 
,,       enlarged,  due  to  abortion,  124. 
,,       enlarged,  of  constitutional  cause, 

107. 
,,       enlarged,    with     backache     and 
great  depression  of  spirits,  80. 
, ,       enlargement  and  displacement  of, 

loi,  129. 
,,       enlargement     of,     and     of     the 

spleen,  126. 
,,       enlargement  of,  with  bad  leucor- 

rhcea,  132. 
,,       haeraorrhoidal,  120. 
,,       in  childless  married  lady,  13. 
,,       in  married  women  who  prevent 

conception,  23. 
,,       misshapen,  with  sterility,  91. 
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154  Index. 

Uterus,  or  womb,  a  living  organ,  i. 
,,        retroverted  and  enlarged,  89. 
,,         subinvoluted,    case   of,    causing 

consumption,  84. 
,,        subinvoluted,  from  constitutional 

cause,  46. 
,,        subinvoluted,  with  haemorrhage 

and  backache,  74. 
traumatic,  16. 
,,         use  of  Helonias  in  enlargements 

of,   112. 

Vaccinosis,  82. 

,,  homoeopathic  to.  Thuja  occi- 

dentalis,  83. 
\'agiual   intro-injections  are   pernicious, 

84,  125. 
\'iburnum,  134. 

Womb   and    ovaries,    impossibililit}'    of 

curing    constitutional     disease 

of,  by  any  operations,  135. 

,,       case  of  excessive  enlargement  of 

the,  organ  to  be  removed,  50. 


Index.  155 

Womb  defrauded,  21. 

,,       description  of,  2.  See  also  Uterus. 
,,     disease  in   married  lady  29  years 

of  age,  46. 
,,      displacement   of,    from   accident, 

case  of,  28. 
,,      enlarged,  disturbing   micturition, 

with  severe  vomiting,  60. 
,,      enlarged,     with     backache     and 

haemorrhage,  74. 
,,      enlargement   of,  dropsy  of  lower 

extremities,  39. 
,,      enlargements   and    displacements 

of,  orthodox  treatment  of,  3. 
,,      in  married  lady  26  j'earsofage,  16. 
,,      or  uterus,  a  living  organ,  i. 
,,      prolapse  of  the,  8. 
,,      reasons  for  other  treatment,  5. 
,,      surgical   and    mechanical   opera- 
tions undertaken  for,  3. 
Women,  married,  cases  of,  who  pre\'ent 
conception,  21. 
,,         married,  cases  of,  who   prevent 
conception,  evil  results  of,  21. 


1 56  Index. 

Women,  organ  diseases  of,  amenable  to 
drug  action,  15. 
,,       who  do  not  wish  to  bear  a  family 
should  not  marry,  26. 
Widow,   elderly,  with  prolapsed  uterus, 
treated  with  Helonias  dioica,  8. 

X.,  Dr.,  recommended  support  for  en- 
larged womb.  10. 

' '  Mrs. ,  43  years  of  age,  case  of  weak 
heart  and  dropsy  of  lower  ex- 
tremities, 39. 

,,  Mrs.  John,  aged  38,  mother  of  six 
children,  case  of  hugely  enlarged 
uterus,  52. 

,,  sister  of  Sir  William,  72  years  of 
age,  case  of  enlarged  w'omb  dis- 
turbing micturition,  60. 

Y.,  Mrs.,  married,  35  years  of  age,  home 
from  Africa,  case  of,  126. 

Zincum  acet.,  37. 


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